The set of signs and additional panels in the image consists of the following three components:
Considering the meanings of the signs, in the given situation you are warned that at a distance of 150 meters you will encounter a level crossing with the railway without barriers with automatic signalling installation. In this situation you are obliged to reduce the speed of travel, you make sure that from the left side or from the right side no railway vehicle is approaching and you cross the railway only if the automatic light signalling installation has in operation the white intermittent light with slow cadence.
The correct answer is: C
OUG* - Article 60
(1) Traffic participants must show increased prudence when approaching and crossing the lines of the current or industrial railway, as the case may be.
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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 intermittent-alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by the intermittent white light and, acoustically, by the emission of intermittent sound signals.
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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OUG* - 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) he encounters 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 stop marking 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 (Regulation of the Road Traffic Code)
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