When you are approaching a level crossing with a current railway and notice that the half‑barriers are in the process of lowering, you have the obligation to stop in front of the half‑barrier. It must be known that when the level crossing with the current railway is provided with half‑barriers, as a rule, it is also provided with an automatic warning system for the approach of the train, and when the train approaches, besides the automatic lowering of the half‑barriers, the red intermittent‑alternative lights together with the intermittent sound signals are also automatically activated.
The correct answer is: B
OUG* - Article 60
(1) Traffic participants must show increased caution when approaching and crossing the lines of a current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or half‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that requires stopping, if these are in the process of lowering or in a horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approach of the train 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 an automatic signalling installation without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is achieved, optically, by the operation of the devices with red intermittent‑alternative lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by the white intermittent 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 an automatic signalling installation 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 a horizontal position of the half‑barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even in only one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single light unit of the device with red intermittent‑alternative light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half‑barriers are in the process of lowering or raising.
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 half‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with white intermittent 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 half‑barriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising;
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) Vehicles must stop, in the order of arrival, in the place where maximum visibility over the railway exists 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 half‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or raising.
* 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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