In this situation you must give priority to the ambulance, not only to reduce the speed and to move with attention.
The road legislation obliges to respect the special light and sound warning signals with priority compared to the light signals of the electric traffic lights.
The motor vehicles that belong to the ambulance service are authorized to use the special blue light warning signals as well as the specific sound ones. When you approach the entrance to an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the special blue light warning means together with the specific sound signal, you have the obligation to give it priority, regardless if this motor vehicle with priority traffic regime comes from a priority road or without priority.
The correct answer is: C
The road legislation does not provide anything in this sense.
OUG* - Article 31
The participants in traffic must respect the traffic rules, the signals, the indications and the provisions of the traffic police officer, as well as the meaning of the different types of road signalling means, in the following priority order:
a) the signals, the indications and the provisions of the traffic police officer;
b) the special light or sound warning signals of the motor vehicles, provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b);
c) the temporary signalling and/or the electronic signs which modify the normal traffic regime;
d) the light or sound signals;
e) the signs;
f) the markings;
g) the traffic rules.
OUG* - Article 32
(1) The special light warning signals are emitted intermittently by the lighting devices mounted on motor vehicles and have the following meanings:
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b) the blue light obliges the participants in traffic to give priority;
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(2) Are authorized to use special light warning signals:
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b) for the blue light - the motor vehicles belonging to the police, gendarmerie, border police, Romanian Customs Authority, National Agency for Fiscal Administration, the ambulance or forensic service, civil protection, the public Salvamont and Salvaspeo services organized by the county councils and local councils, the Ministry of National Defence which accompany military columns, the special units of the Romanian Intelligence Service and of the Protection and Guard Service, the National Administration of Penitentiaries within the Ministry of Justice, as well as the service motor vehicles of the prosecutors from the Public Ministry, when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have emergency character;
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(3) The motor vehicles provided in paragraph (2) letter a) and b) must be equipped also with special sound warning means.
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OUG* - Article 37
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(2) The drivers of vehicles are obliged to reduce the speed, to move as close as possible to the edge of the road in the direction of movement and to give priority to the passing of the motor vehicles with priority traffic regime that have in operation the special blue light warning means and sound ones.
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OUG* - Article 61
(1) Only the motor vehicles provided in art. 32 paragraph (2) letter a) and b) have priority traffic regime, when they move in intervention actions or in missions which have emergency character. To have priority, these motor vehicles must have in operation the light and sound signals.
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Regulation** - Article 130
The driver of vehicle who approaches the entrance to an intersection simultaneously with a motor vehicle with priority traffic regime that has in operation the light and sound signals has the obligation to give it priority.
* OUG = EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of December 12, 2002 updated (Road Code)
** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Regulation of the road code)
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