Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category B (B, B1)

The intersection in the image is one in which the traffic is controlled with regulatory priority signs. Even if only on the non‑priority road regulatory priority signs are installed, more precisely the “Stop” sign, this intersection is one with controlled traffic.

We draw attention that such intersections in which the regulatory priority signs are installed only on the road or, as the case may be, on the non‑priority roads are also encountered in reality, these being intersections with controlled traffic.

The car and the bus come from non‑priority roads, encountering the “Stop” sign, and are obliged to give priority to the vehicles that come from the priority road, more precisely the truck, which will pass first through this intersection.

The car and the bus have equal rights to pass through this intersection because both encounter the “Stop” sign, but because the bus intends to turn left it will give priority to the car, because during the left turn the car comes to it from the right side.

The passing order is the following: the truck, followed by the car, and the last to enter the intersection will be the bus.

The correct answer is: B

Recommendations:

The complete explanation of the sign --> Stop

The behaviour of the driver of the vehicle at the Stop sign - Audio‑Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The priority given by signs

OUG* - Article 59

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(2) In the intersections, the drivers of the vehicles who turn left are obliged to give priority to the vehicles which they intersect and which move from the right side.
(3) In the intersections with controlled traffic through regulatory priority signs, the right‑hand priority rule is respected only in the case in which two vehicles are about to meet, each entering the intersection from a road signalled with a sign having the same meaning of priority or loss of priority.
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Regulation** - Article 129

(1) The vehicle which moves on a public road on which one of the signs having the meaning: “Priority road”, “Intersection with a non‑priority road” or “Priority over the oncoming traffic” is installed has priority.
(2) When two vehicles are about to meet in an intersection controlled by signs, coming from two public roads where signs with the same meaning are installed, the vehicle that comes from the right has priority.

* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of 12 December 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)