Heavy goods trucks do not benefit from special priority of passage.
Vehicles belonging to Civil Protection have priority ONLY when the special warning light and sound signals are in operation. It must be known that these must have both types of signalling (light and sound) in operation to benefit from the priority traffic regime.
In all types of intersection, motor vehicles with priority traffic regime will have priority of passage when they are moving in intervention actions or in missions of an emergency nature and have the special warning light and sound signals in operation. It must be known that these must have both types of signalling (light and sound) in operation to benefit from the priority traffic regime.
The correct answer is: C
Road legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
OUG* - Article 61
(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) have priority traffic regime when moving in intervention actions or in missions of an emergency nature. To have priority of passage, these motor vehicles must have the light and sound signals in operation.
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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 of passage;
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(2) Are authorized to use special warning light signals:
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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 service or forensic medicine, civil protection, [...]
(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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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of the vehicle who approaches the entrance of an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has the light and sound signals in operation, is obliged to give it priority of passage.
* OUG = 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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