Shropshire Seagull
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How do you indicate going straight over (second exit) a normal roundabout?
- Thread starter TomandJerry
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Shropshire Seagull
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How does the silver car know your intentions if you give no signal until you've past his exit.
Tricky?
Bar the mini-roundabouts, I tend to flash right until I've gone past the last exit I'm not taking, then flash left to signal my intention to exit the roundabout. This confirms to those waiting to join the roundabout that I'm not turning off yet, so stay put.
But in that example picture, maybe no signal would suggest my intention is to go straight on? But risks the silver car pulling out as might assume you're turning left at his junction.
Eees complicaated - probably why the Yanks don't have (m)any roundabouts.
AmexRuislip
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Agreed very complicated, but as you know there are drivers who indicate and those who cannot be assed.
With that roundabout I tend to drive very carefully and use the eyes in the back of my head or use the length of a bus or truck that blocks all insundrie
Weststander
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Saw a driver at the roundabout just off the A27 eastbound at Hollingbury, drive the wrong way round it, to beat small jam. Anyone who hooted him were told to f**k-off.
Indicating was the last thing on his mind.
Indicating was the last thing on his mind.
OzMike
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You don't, as you are going straight on, nobody here knows what to do on a roundabout and subsequently there are a lot of bingles.
It doesn't help when everyone is from somewhere else either and don't heed any traffic signs and signals at all.
It doesn't help when everyone is from somewhere else either and don't heed any traffic signs and signals at all.
MythBusters test a four-way stop vs. a roundabout
http://www.rots.com/video/9428/mythbusters-test-a-fourway-stop-vs-a-roundabout
Return of the Rev
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Stick hazards lights on and put the boot down!
worthingseagull
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- Sep 28, 2011
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just floor it
Rubbish. You don't indicate 'just' before turning off. You should put your indicator on at the earliest point that it isn't misleading which should be when you are next to the exit before yours (not past it), ie if you look to your left you should see it out of your front passenger window.
JJ McClure
Go Jags
The number of people that don't indicate when going round a roundabout is ridiculous. I honestly don't know if they've changed the rules so you don't have to now or its just another example of the fact that the world had been Fedexed to hell.
The driver of the silver car probably needs to get educated then. If there is no left signal there is no way they should assume you are turning left. General rule is that if the exit you want as per the roundabout sign, is further round than 12 o'clock then that is when you signal right (and switch signal when next to the exit before yours). If taking any exit upto 12 (other than the first exit) then don't signal on approach to the roundabout.
brightn'ove
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If everyone knew the rules it wouldn't be complicated.
This local example gets on my tits.
There are two lanes and two exits, therefore in this situation, it is acceptable to use the right hand lane to go straight on. Think it's only me that does it though!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8...4!1s0wq3sdNPgCyy3-v5S1-Zvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It's a good example of where some simple lane markings would help, though.
There are two lanes and two exits, therefore in this situation, it is acceptable to use the right hand lane to go straight on. Think it's only me that does it though!
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8...4!1s0wq3sdNPgCyy3-v5S1-Zvg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
It's a good example of where some simple lane markings would help, though.
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
Here's one.
Dyke Road / Mill Road / A27
The Dyke Road exit has two lanes and the roundabout has two exits (plus Mill Road that no one uses). Exit 1 is A27 west bound. Exit 2 has two lanes for A27 east bound & Devils Dyke.
I go into the right hand lane of Dyke Road even though I'm going straight across.
Dyke Road / Mill Road / A27
The Dyke Road exit has two lanes and the roundabout has two exits (plus Mill Road that no one uses). Exit 1 is A27 west bound. Exit 2 has two lanes for A27 east bound & Devils Dyke.
I go into the right hand lane of Dyke Road even though I'm going straight across.
I think either is acceptable as there are two lanes going straight on. And two lanes on the A27 eastbound on slip.
Are you saying there are two lanes on the exit ahead because there aren't. The road might appear wide enough but it is only shown as one lane so theoretically you should be in the left hand lane if you are taking the exit for the A283 to Steyning/Henfield. If there were road markings then that would be different.
This is my preferred method of choice, clearly signals that you are still on the roundabout and not exiting, until I then indicate left to exit.
Thread over.
No, I am saying there are two lanes on the approach to the roundabout, and two exits from the roundabout (A283 south and A283 north - not a lot of traffic is going to go back where it came from on the A27 east). As such it makes sense that the left lane is used for the A283 south and the right the A283 north. Either that or the 500m long right hand lane coming off the A27 westbound is pretty pointless.
I think people need to differentiate between a road that has two lanes and what is merely the widening of the road at the entrance to a roundabout to accommodate two cars!