The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special blue-coloured light warning signals as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entry into an intersection, simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the special warning means with blue-coloured light together with the specific sound signal, you are obliged to give it priority, regardless of whether this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or from a non-priority road.
The correct answer is: 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:
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b) the blue light obliges the traffic participants to give priority;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning 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 Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and the local councils, the Ministry of National Defense that escort 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 urgent character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letters 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 speed, to move 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-coloured light warning means and sound ones.
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OUG* - Article 61
(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letters a) and b) have priority traffic regime, when they move in intervention actions or in missions that have an urgent 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 a vehicle that approaches the entry 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 = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Traffic Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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