When you are approaching a level crossing with a current railway and you notice that the half‑barriers are in the process of lowering, you are obliged to stop in front of the half‑barrier. It must be known that when the level crossing with the current railway is equipped with half‑barriers, as a rule, it is also equipped with an automatic installation for warning of the train’s approach, and when the train is approaching, in addition to the automatic closing of the half‑barriers, the intermittent‑alternative red lights together with the intermittent sound signals are automatically activated.
The correct answer is: B
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.
(2) At the level crossing with a current railway, provided with barriers or half‑barriers, the drivers of vehicles are obliged to stop at the sign that requires stopping, if these are lowering or are in a horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the train’s approach 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 intermittent‑alternative red lights and by switching off the control signalling represented by the intermittent white light and, acoustically, by emitting 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 the prohibition of road traffic is achieved under the conditions provided in Art. 69 paragraph (2), as well as by lowering the half‑barriers into the horizontal position.
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 the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) by the operation of the sound system;
c) by the horizontal position of a single half‑barrier.
(2) 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 a 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 a vehicle may cross the current railway provided with barriers or half‑barriers, if these are raised and the light and sound signals are not operating, and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
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Regulation** - Article 138
(1) The driver of a 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 maximum visibility over the railway exists 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 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 (Road Traffic Code Regulation)
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