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For answer  A 

In this situation you must give priority to the ambulance, not only to reduce speed and to drive with attention.

For answer  B 

Road traffic legislation obliges to respect the special light and sound warning signals with priority over the light signals of electric traffic lights.

For answer  C 

The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special blue light warning signals as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entrance of an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the special blue light warning means together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give it priority, regardless of whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or without priority.

The correct answer is: C

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Special warning signals, light or sound  - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Special warning signals, light or sound

The order in which the meaning of road signaling is respected - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - The priority order between the different types of road signaling

For answer  A 

Road traffic legislation does not provide anything in this regard.

For answer  B 

OUG* - Article 31

Traffic participants must respect the traffic rules, the signals, the indications and the instructions of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of road signaling means, in the following order of priority:
a) the signals, the indications and the instructions of the traffic police officer;
b) the special light or sound warning signals of the motor vehicles, provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b);
c) the temporary signaling and/or the electronic signs, which modify the normal regime of traffic unfolding;
d) light or sound signals;
e) the signs;
f) the markings;
g) the traffic rules.

For answer  C 

OUG* - Article 32

(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
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b) the blue light obliges the traffic participants to give priority;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
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b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, gendarmerie, border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance service or forensic medicine, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence that accompany military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of the Protection and Guard Service, the National Administration of Penitentiaries within the Ministry of Justice, as well as the service motor vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have urgent character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letter a) and b) must also be equipped with special sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 37

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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of movement and to give priority at the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound.
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OUG* - Article 61

(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) have priority traffic regime, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have urgent character. To have priority, these motor vehicles must have in operation the light and sound signals.
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Regulation** - Article 130

The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entrance of an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals, is obliged to give it priority.

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