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When you encounter motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special warning means with red colour light and the sound ones, you are obliged to stop immediately the car on the hard shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel. After their passing you can continue your travel.

We must know 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, a situation in which the respective motor vehicle does not have priority traffic regime. But the reverse situation, to use only the sound signals without being accompanied by the light ones, is not allowed to them.

We recommend you to also consult the articles from the updated traffic legislation which are found a little further below.

The correct answer is: A

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For answer A

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:
a) the red light obliges the participants in traffic to stop in the direction of travel as close as possible to the edge of the road;
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(2) Are authorized to use special warning light signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and to the firefighters;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letters a) and b) must be equipped also with special sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 37

(1) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop immediately, on the hard shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, at the approach and at the passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special warning means with red colour light and sound ones.
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Regulation** - Article 130

The driver of the 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, is obliged to give it priority.

For answer B

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 participants in traffic to give priority;
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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, the public services Salvamont and Salvaspeo organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence 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 prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they travel in intervention actions or in missions which have urgent character;

OUG* - Article 37

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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce 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 motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special warning means with blue colour light and sound ones.
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For answer C

OUG* - Article 37

(1) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop immediately, on the hard shoulder or, in its absence, as close as possible to the edge of the road or the curb of the sidewalk, in the direction of travel, at the approach and at the passing of motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special warning means with red colour light and sound ones.
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* OUG = Government Emergency Ordinance no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = Regulation for the application of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Code Regulation)