When you approach a level crossing with a current railway and you notice that the barriers or half‑barriers are in the process of lowering, you have the obligation to stop in front of them. You may continue your movement only after the barriers or half‑barriers have risen, the red light signals and the sound signals have gone out and the signal with intermittent white light with slow cadence is operating.
The correct answer is: B
OUG* - Article 60
(1) The participants in traffic 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 in the process of lowering or in horizontal position and/or the sound and light signals that announce the approaching train are operating.
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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, optically, through the operation of the devices with intermittent‑alternative red lights and the extinguishing of the control signalling represented by intermittent white light and, acoustically, through the emission of 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 through the lowering in horizontal position of the half‑barriers.
Regulation** - Article 71
(1) The signalling of the prohibition of road traffic is considered achieved even in only one of the following situations:
a) through the lighting of a single light unit of the device with intermittent‑alternative red light;
b) through the operation of the sound system;
c) through 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 rising.
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 rising;
b) the signal with red lights and/or the sound signal are operating;
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 half‑barriers, when these are closed, in the process of lowering or rising.
* OUG = GOVERNMENT EMERGENCY ORDINANCE no. 195 of 12 December 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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