For answer A
When driving on bridges, under bridges or through tunnels you do NOT have the obligation to drive with a speed that does not exceed 50 km/h outside built-up area, but you must respect the legal speed limit on the respective road sector and adapt it to the road conditions. Also, from the point of view of preventive conduct, increasing attention when driving through these areas is recommended.
When you are being overtaken by another vehicle you do NOT have the obligation to reduce the driving speed, but you have the obligation not to increase the driving speed and to drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which you are driving.
The special warning signals with BLUE colour light, together with the sound ones, oblige you to give priority, and in order to give priority you must reduce the driving speed and drive as close as possible to the edge of the road, in the direction of travel, more precisely as close as possible to the curb or to the right-hand shoulder.
If, for giving priority, it is necessary also to stop, you must do it. A good example would be the intersections in which stopping is needed 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 opposite situation, to use only the sound signals without being accompanied by the light ones, is not allowed.
The correct answer is: C
The road legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
Regulation** - Article 119
The driver of a vehicle who is about to be overtaken is obliged:
a) not to increase the driving speed;
b) to drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which he is driving.
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special warning light 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) Authorized to use special warning light signals are:
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b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, the gendarmerie, the border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance or forensic service, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and the local councils, the Ministry of National Defense which 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 travel in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency 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 the speed, to drive as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of travel and to give priority at the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special warning means with blue colour light and sound.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entrance into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the light and sound signals, has the obligation to give it priority.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Traffic Code Regulation)
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