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When you want to perform the overtaking maneuver, you have the following obligations:

• to make sure that the vehicle in front and the one behind have not signalled the start of a similar maneuver and that you can overtake without endangering or without hindering the traffic coming from the opposite direction;
• to signal the intention to perform the maneuver;
• to keep during the overtaking a sufficient lateral distance from the overtaken vehicle;
• to re-enter the initial line of vehicles after you have signalled and made sure that you can perform the maneuver in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other road users.

To ensure an appropriate lateral safety distance, the drivers of motor vehicles (except motor vehicles with two wheels), will perform the overtaking maneuver of bicycles or electric scooters respecting, in addition to the obligations regarding the overtaking maneuver, the following obligations, depending on the speed at which they move (art. 118 paragraph 2 of the Regulation):

• when they move at a speed of up to 50 km/h, they are obliged to perform the overtaking maneuver by crossing the longitudinal marking separating the traffic directions or the one separating the lanes on the same direction of traffic;
• when they move at a speed greater than 50 km/h, they are obliged to perform the overtaking maneuver by passing with at least half of the width of the motor vehicle over the longitudinal marking separating the traffic directions or the one separating the lanes on the same direction of traffic.

In conclusion, if you move with up to 50 km/h you are obliged at least to cross the marking, and if you move with more than 50 km/h you are obliged at least to pass with half of the width of the motor vehicle over the marking. It must be noted that the above are not just recommendations, these are obligations, and their non-compliance is sanctioned according to the law.

It must be noted that in the case in which a road sector has this marking made with a continuous line the overtaking of bicycles or electric scooters can no longer be performed, because it is prohibited the crossing or passing over this continuous line marking, and for the overtaking of these vehicles it is obligatory the crossing or passing over this marking. The only regulatory option is to go behind these vehicles until the end of the continuous line marking and the beginning of the discontinuous line marking which can be crossed and the overtaking of these vehicles can be performed in compliance with the rules.

These legislative provisions related to overtaking bicycles or electric scooters were added in 2021 in the road legislation.

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Rules regarding the performing of the overtaking maneuver - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Overtaking

Regulation** - Article 118

(1) The driver of a vehicle who performs the overtaking is obliged:
a) to make sure that the one who follows him or the one who precedes him has not signalled the intention of starting a similar maneuver and that he can overtake without endangering or without hindering the traffic coming from the opposite direction;
b) to signal the intention of performing the overtaking;
c) to keep during the overtaking a sufficient lateral distance from the overtaken vehicle;
d) to re-enter the lane or the initial line of traffic after he has signalled and made sure that he can perform this maneuver in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other road users.

(2) To ensure the lateral safety distance, when overtaking a bicycle or an electric scooter the drivers of motor vehicles, other than those which move on two wheels, perform this maneuver by passing over the longitudinal marking separating the traffic directions or separating the lanes on the same direction, with at least half of the width of the motor vehicle when its speed of movement is greater than 50 km/h, or at least by crossing these markings when the movement speed is at most 50 km/h. (Paragraph (2) was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)

Regulation** - Article 119

The driver of a vehicle who is about to be overtaken is obliged:
a) not to increase the speed of movement;
b) to drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which he moves.

** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)