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When you approach a level crossing with a current railway provided with barriers or semibarriers and you notice that the 2 red lights operate intermittently alternately, you have the obligation to stop, the barriers being lowered, in the process of lowering or raising.
The correct answer is: B
OUG* - Article 60
(1) Participants in traffic must show increased caution when approaching and crossing current or industrial railway lines, as the case may be.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or semibarriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges stopping, if these are in the process of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approaching train are in operation.
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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, by the operation of the devices with red intermittent-alternative lights and the extinction of the control signalling represented by the white intermittent light and, acoustically, by 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 prohibition of road traffic is achieved under the conditions provided in art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by lowering into horizontal position of the semibarriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even in only one of the following situations:
a) by the lighting of a single light unit of the device with red intermittent-alternative light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single semibarrier.
(2) Road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or semibarriers are in the process of lowering or raising.
Regulation** - Article 136
(1) At the level crossing with the current railway, the driver of the vehicle is obliged to drive 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 semibarriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals do not operate, and the signal with white intermittent light with slow cadence is in operation.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of the vehicle is obliged to stop when:
a) the barriers or semibarriers are lowered, in the process of lowering or raising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are in operation;
c) meets the sign "Level crossing with single 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 there is maximum visibility over the railway without passing the signs provided in paragraph (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the marking for stopping or before the barriers or semibarriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or raising.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT 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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