Step 3 » GENERAL learning environment Category C (C, C1)

At level crossings with the current railway provided with barriers the driver of the vehicle has the following obligations:

• to show increased caution, to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching;
• if the barriers/half‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising, is obliged to stop, in the order of arrival, before the barriers/half‑barriers,

Therefore, at the level crossing with the railway, when the barriers are raised, the driver of a vehicle must reduce the speed and cross carefully, making sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching.

The correct answer is: C

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OUG* - Article 60

(1) Participants in traffic must show increased caution when approaching and crossing the lines of the current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
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Regulation** - Article 71

(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even only in one of the following situations:
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c) through the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half‑barriers are in the process of lowering or raising.

Regulation** - Article 136

(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 138

(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or half‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are operating;
c) encounters the sign "Level crossing with the simple railway, without barriers", "Level crossing with the double railway, without barriers" or "Stop".
(2) The vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where there is maximum visibility over the railway without crossing the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stop marking or before the barriers or half‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or raising.

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