When you approach a level crossing with a current railway and observe that the barriers or half‑barriers are lowering, you are obliged to stop in front of them. You may continue your movement only after the barriers or half‑barriers have risen, the red light signals and the sound signals have gone out and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
The correct answer is: B
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 half‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that requires stopping, if these are lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the train approaching are operating.
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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, visually, through the operation of the devices with intermittent‑alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, through 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 through the lowering in 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) through the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) through the operation of the sound system;
c) through 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 lowering or raising.
Regulation** - Article 136
(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to move 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 intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
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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, lowering or raising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are operating;
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 maximum visibility on 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, lowering or raising.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Traffic Code Regulation)
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