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When you approach a level crossing with a current railway provided with barriers or semi‑barriers and you observe that the 2 red lights operate intermittently alternately, you are obliged to stop, the barriers being lowered, in the course of lowering or of rising.

The correct answer is: B

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OUG* - Article 60

(1) Participants in traffic must show increased caution when approaching and crossing the lines of the current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or semi‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges stopping, if these are in the course of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the train’s approach are in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 69

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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway provided with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is achieved, optically, by the operation of the devices with intermittently‑alternating red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emission of intermittent sound signals.

Regulation** - Article 70

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(4) At the level crossing with the railway provided with automatic signalling installations with barriers, the signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is achieved under the conditions provided in art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by the lowering in horizontal position of the semi‑barriers.

Regulation** - Article 71

(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even only in one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittently‑alternating red light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single semi‑barrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or semi‑barriers are in the course of lowering or of rising.

Regulation** - Article 136

(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to drive with reduced speed and to make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 137

(1) The driver of the vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or semi‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 138

(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or semi‑barriers are lowered, in the course of lowering or of rising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
c) he encounters the sign "Level crossing with simple railway, without barriers", "Level crossing with double railway, without barriers" or "Stop".
(2) The vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where there is maximum visibility over the railway without passing the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stopping marking or before the barriers or semi‑barriers, when these are closed, in the course of lowering or of rising.

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