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When approaching a level crossing with a railway equipped with automatic half‑barriers, the sound signals and red lights being in operation, you have the obligation to reduce the speed and to stop before the half‑barriers.
It is prohibited to go around the half‑barrier and you continue your journey, regardless of whether the train is approaching or not.
At level crossings with the railway the reduction of the travel speed is mandatory, in which case increasing the speed is prohibited for you. You must not force the crossing over the railway, or increase the speed so as not to be caught by the closing of the half‑barrier, it is possible to be caught between the lowered half‑barriers and such cases can have a tragic ending.
The correct answer is: A
OUG* - Article 60
(1) The 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, equipped with barriers or half‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that obliges to stop, if these are in the process of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approach of the train are operating.
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Regulation** - Article 69
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(2) At the level crossing with the current railway equipped with automatic signalling installations without barriers, the prohibition of road traffic is carried out, optically, by operating the devices with red intermittent‑alternative lights and extinguishing the control signalling represented by white intermittent light and, acoustically, by emitting intermittent sound signals.
Regulation** - Article 70
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(4) At the level crossing with the railway equipped with automatic signalling installations with barriers, the signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is carried out under the conditions provided in art. 69 para. (2), as well as by lowering in horizontal position of the half‑barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even only in one of the following situations:
a) by lighting a single luminous unit of the device with red intermittent‑alternative light;
b) by operating the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) The road traffic is also considered prohibited in the situation in which the barriers or half‑barriers 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 a railway vehicle is not approaching.
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Regulation** - Article 137
(1) The driver of the vehicle may cross the current railway equipped with barriers or half‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with white intermittent 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, in the process of 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 there is maximum visibility over the railway without passing the signs provided in para. (1) letter c) or, as the case may be, before the stop marking or before the barriers or half‑barriers, 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 (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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