The special warning signals with blue-coloured light, together with the sound ones, oblige you to give priority to passage, and in order to give priority to passage you must reduce the speed of travel and drive as close as possible to the edge of the road, in the direction of travel, more precisely as close as possible to the curb or to the hard shoulder on the right side.
In the situation in which, for giving priority, it is necessary to also stop, you must do it. A good example would be the intersections in which stopping is needed in order to be able to give priority to passage to these motor vehicles with priority traffic regime.
It must be known that these motor vehicles with priority traffic regime are allowed to use 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.
The correct answer is: C
See the legal articles from answer C.
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning 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 authorised to use special light warning signals:
a) for the red light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police and firefighters;
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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 pavement, in the direction of travel, at the approaching and the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime which have in operation the special red coloured light and sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning 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 to passage;
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(2) Are authorised to use special light warning 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 public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organised by the county councils and the local councils, the Ministry of National Defence which accompany military convoys, 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 travel in intervention actions or in missions which have an emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letter a) and b) must also be equipped 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 the 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 which have in operation the special blue coloured light and sound warning means.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of a vehicle who approaches the entry into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime which has in operation the light and sound signals, has the obligation to give it priority to passage.
* OUG = 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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