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The road traffic legislation does not provide anything in this regard.
When you intend to overtake cyclists or groups of pedestrians who move on the carriageway, you will respect the legal provisions regarding overtaking, because priority is given to all vehicles and pedestrians who have this right.
In the event that the group of pedestrians is an organized group, although this is not specified, you have the obligation to drive with a speed that does not exceed 30 km/h in the urban area or 50 km/h outside built-up area when they are on the carriageway of roads with a single traffic lane per direction.
In order to ensure a proper 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, besides the obligations regarding the overtaking maneuver, also the following obligations, depending on the speed with which they move (art. 118 paragraph 2 of the Regulation):
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 cross with half of the width of the motor vehicle over the marking. These above are not just recommendations, they are obligations, and failure to respect them is sanctioned according to the law.
Note that in the event that a road section has this marking made with a continuous line you can no longer perform the overtaking of bicycles or electric scooters, because crossing or passing over this continuous line marking is prohibited, and for overtaking these vehicles crossing or passing over this marking is mandatory. The only regulatory option is to drive behind these vehicles until the end of the continuous line marking and the beginning of the discontinuous line marking that can be crossed and you can perform the overtaking of these vehicles legally.
These legislative provisions regarding the overtaking of bicycles or electric scooters were added in 2021 in the road traffic legislation.
For overtaking pedestrians, a certain lateral distance is not specified, but it must be a distance that allows performing the maneuver in safety conditions. For overtaking bicycles the overtaking rules from the explanation of answer B apply.
The correct answer is: B
Regulation** - Article 123
The driver of a vehicle is obliged to drive with a speed that does not exceed 30 km/h in the urban area or 50 km/h outside built-up area, in the following situations:
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c) when passing by organized groups, military columns or processions, regardless of whether they move or wait on the carriageway of roads with a single traffic lane per direction;
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Regulation** - Article 118
(1) The driver of a vehicle who performs overtaking is obliged:
a) to make sure that the one who follows or precedes him has not signalled the intention of starting a similar maneuver and that he can overtake without endangering or without disturbing the traffic 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 return to the lane or to the initial traffic row after signaling and making sure that he can perform this maneuver in safety conditions for the overtaken vehicle and for the other traffic participants.(2) For ensuring the lateral safety distance, when overtaking a bicycle or an electric scooter the drivers of motor vehicles, other than those that move on two wheels, perform this maneuver by crossing over the longitudinal marking separating the directions of travel or separating the lanes in the same direction, with at least half of the width of the motor vehicle when its travel speed is greater than 50 km/h, or at least by crossing these markings when the travel speed is at most 50 km/h. (Paragraph (2) was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)
Regulation** - Article 118
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(2) For ensuring the lateral safety distance, when overtaking a bicycle or an electric scooter the drivers of motor vehicles, other than those that move on two wheels, perform this maneuver by crossing over the longitudinal marking separating the directions of travel or separating the lanes in the same direction, with at least half of the width of the motor vehicle when its travel speed is greater than 50 km/h, or at least by crossing these markings when the travel speed is at most 50 km/h. (Paragraph (2) was modified and updated on www.scoalarutiera.ro on 06-10-2021)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)
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