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Romania — driver's guide
Verified links and explanations for drivers: insurance, service, motorway vignette, tolls, accident help.
Road vignette (rovinieta)
You must have a valid rovinietă (road vignette) before driving on Romanian national roads and motorways; it is registered to your number plate. Options are 1-day, 10-day, 30-day, 60-day, 90-day and 12-month; in 2026 the annual vignette for a car costs 254.02 lei through official channels. Driving without a valid rovinietă means a fine. Important: the line between official sellers and resellers is unusually thin in Romania. Buy only at erovinieta.ro or from authorized distributors — post offices and OMV, Petrom, Rompetrol and MOL stations; the official list is at cnadnr.ro/ro/puncte-de-distributie. The road operator CNAIR has publicly named unauthorized sites that add roughly a 30% "registration fee" — rovinietadigitala.ro, tollvignettes.com and erovinieta.net — where the same vignette costs about 330 lei instead of 254 lei.
Go to the official purchase ↗Danube bridge toll
The Danube bridge at Fetești–Cernavodă on the A2 motorway (the "Sun Highway" to the Black Sea coast) is tolled separately — the rovinietă does not cover it. The toll is 13 RON per car (up to 3.5 t) per crossing. You can pay by SMS to 7577, at OMV, Petrom, Rompetrol and MOL stations, online, or at the toll barrier. Important: drivers heading to the coast often forget this bridge is extra — buy it separately, and stick to CNAIR's official channels (SMS, fuel stations, erovinieta.ro), because unofficial "taxadepod" reseller sites exist here too.
Open the official source ↗Emergency numbers
112 is the single emergency number in Romania — police, ambulance and fire service. If you are involved in an accident with injuries, call 112 and stay at the scene.
Open the official source ↗Compulsory motor liability insurance (RCA)
RCA third-party liability insurance is compulsory for every vehicle registered in Romania. BAAR (Biroul Asigurătorilor de Autovehicule din România) is the official Romanian Motor Insurers' Bureau, responsible for green cards and guarantee tasks. Since 2025 the green card document is also valid in electronic form as a PDF.
Open the official source ↗Service / repair
Servicing and repairs in Romania are a purely commercial matter — there is no state obligation and no official state directory of workshops. To find an authorized workshop, use your car manufacturer's official dealer and service locator.