The special warning signals with blue light, together with the sound ones, oblige you to give priority, and in order to give priority you must reduce the speed of travel and drive as close as possible to the edge of the road, in the direction of travel, more exactly as close as possible to the curb or to the shoulder on the right side.
In the event that, in order to give priority, it is necessary also to stop, you must do so. A good example would be the intersections in which stopping is necessary in order to be able to give priority to these motor vehicles with priority traffic regime.
It must be known that these motor vehicles with priority traffic regime are allowed to use the light signals without being accompanied by the sound ones, depending on the nature of the mission or on the traffic conditions, situation in which the respective motor vehicle does not have priority traffic regime. But the reverse situation, to use only the sound signals without being accompanied by the light ones, is not permitted to them.
Answer B is incorrect, because the speed of travel must not be increased, but must be reduced, according to the articles in the updated road legislation found on this page, slightly below
Answer C is incorrect, because immediate stopping, on the shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or to the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, is mandatory at the special warning signals with red light, together with the sound ones. In this case the question refers to the motor vehicles that have in operation the special blue light warning means, together with the sound ones.
The correct answer is: A
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) The following 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 Salvamont and Salvaspeo public services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defense that accompany military convoys, 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 travel in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letters 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 the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority when passing motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound ones.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entry into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals, has the obligation to give it priority.
OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority when passing motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound ones.
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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:
a) the red light obliges the traffic participants to stop in the direction of travel as close as possible to the edge of the road;
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(2) The following are authorized to use special light warning signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
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OUG* - Article 37
(1) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop immediately, on the shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, at the approach and passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special red light warning means and sound ones.
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* 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)
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