In this situation you must give priority to the ambulance, not only to reduce speed and to drive with attention.
The road legislation obliges respecting the special warning signals, light and sound, with priority over the light signals of the electric traffic lights.
The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special blue light warning signals as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entrance into an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the special blue light warning means together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give it priority, regardless whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or from a non-priority road.
The correct answer is: C
The road legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
OUG* - Article 31
Traffic participants must respect the traffic rules, the signals, indications and orders of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of traffic signalling means, in the following order of priority:
a) the signals, indications and orders of the traffic police officer;
b) the special warning signals, light or sound, of the motor vehicles, provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b);
c) the temporary signalling and/or the electronic signs, which modify the normal traffic regime;
d) the light or sound signals;
e) the signs;
f) the markings;
g) the traffic rules.
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 traffic participants 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, gendarmerie, border police, the Romanian Customs Authority, the National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance or forensic medicine service, civil protection, the Salvamont and Salvaspeo public services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence that 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 the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letter a) and b) must be equipped also with special sound warning means.
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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 the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound.
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OUG* - Article 61
(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) have priority traffic regime, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have an emergency character. To have priority, these motor vehicles must have in operation the light and sound signals.
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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 that has in operation the light and sound signals is obliged to give it priority.
* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Code Regulation)
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