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When you want to perform the overtaking manoeuvre, you have the following obligations:
In order to ensure an appropriate lateral safety distance, drivers of motor vehicles (except motor vehicles with two wheels) will perform the overtaking manoeuvre of bicycles or electric scooters respecting, besides the obligations regarding the overtaking manoeuvre, also the following obligations, depending on the speed with which they move (art. 118 paragraph 2 of the Regulation):
In conclusion, if you move with up to 50 km/h you are obliged at least to cross the marking, and if you move with more than 50 km/h you are obliged at least to pass with half of the width of the motor vehicle over the marking. It must be remembered that the above are not just recommendations, these are obligations, and failure to comply with them is sanctioned according to the law.
It must be noted that in the case in which a road section has this marking made with a continuous line the overtaking of bicycles or electric scooters can no longer be performed, because it is prohibited to cross or pass over this continuous line marking, and for the overtaking of these vehicles it is obligatory to cross or pass over this marking. The only regular option is to move behind these vehicles until the end of the continuous line marking and the start of the discontinuous line marking which can be crossed and the overtaking of these vehicles can be performed lawfully.
These legislative provisions related to the overtaking of bicycles or electric scooters were added in 2021 in the road legislation.
The correct answer is: B
Regulation** - Article 118
(1) The driver of a vehicle who performs the overtaking is obliged:
a) to make sure that the one who follows him or precedes him has not signalled the intention to start a similar manoeuvre and that he can overtake without endangering or without hindering the traffic from the opposite direction;
b) to signal the intention to perform the overtaking;
c) to keep during the overtaking a sufficient lateral distance from the overtaken vehicle;
d) to return to the lane or the initial line of traffic after he has signalled and has made sure that he can perform this manoeuvre in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other participants in traffic.(2) For ensuring the lateral safety distance, at the overtaking of a bicycle or an electric scooter the drivers of motor vehicles, other than those which move on two wheels, perform this manoeuvre by passing over the longitudinal marking separating the directions of travel or separating the lanes on the same direction, with at least half of the width of the motor vehicle when its speed is greater than 50 km/h, or at least by crossing these markings when the speed of travel is at most 50 km/h. (Paragraph (2) was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06‑10‑2021)
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 move as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which he moves.
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (the Regulation of the road code)
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