Roundabout Etiquette

[mikey4444]

I am having a disagreement with my sister-in-law over this.

We have a simple roundabout...ie with exits east, north west and south.

When she is going straight on at a roundabout, she signals right and then changes to signal left, just as she about to exit the roundabout.

That sounds daft to me ! I stay in the left lane ( if there is one ) and then signal left as I pass the penultimate exit. I maintain that by signalling right, she is confusing the driver than may be coming behind her, who might be led to believe she is really turning right.

But I may be wrong of course !

[mrs_overall]

You are right and she is wrong

[mikey4444]

On so many things Mrs O !

[mrs_overall]

lol

[jomifl]

I've been driving for 54 years, never heard of indicating left or right to go straight on. Indicate intended direction preferably before manouever.

[-Talbot-]

One lane she will get away with it but if she was to the left of me on a two lane carriageway indicating to go right, a sentence something like this would leave my lips

''I hope that stoopid moo isn't going to go round the roundabout on the outside for the 3rd or 4th exit ***%&" "*^ *"**!

[mikey4444]

I must remember Stoopid Moo..... It might come in handy one day !

[Hypognosis]

@mikey

//I hope that is clear now.....it would be so much easier if I could draw a diagram and put it on here !//

I know what you mean. Someone recommended Skitch for scribbling what you mean on charts or photos but I've not even begun to try it (nothing requiring it yet).

But I do get what you meant now, thanks. If you'd said "sideswipe maneuvre", I'd have understood immediately.

Does anyone use the phrase "positional indication"? To me, taking right hand lane at the roundabout is an overt declaration that you're taking an exit to the right of straight ahead. I all but cease paying attention to the vehicle to my right. If it hits me without indicating or gives only a fraction of a second's left indicator then the claim should be interesting.

It is frustrating when an opportunity to set off from the entry give way is lost because someone takes that exit without indicating left but that's just a minor niggle and has zero danger if their ambiguous course/intention obliges you to continue to wait. Indeed second-guessing other drivers is probably what leads to some accidents.

[Gromit]

// going straight on at a roundabout, I stay in the left lane //

Wrong. If you are not turning left, you should be in the right lane. As you pass the first left exit, you should then indicate left to exit the srcond left exit.

[Tilly2]

All this circumspection has made me nervous about using roundabouts.

[stuey]

Get rid of all those damn round-a-bouts; quit driving in endless circles; and, most importantly, learn to drive on the right (as in correct) side of the bloody road.

[Hypognosis]

@stuey

Being a martial sort of people, we chose to pass one another with sword hand closest to the oncoming rider/pedestrian. (Apocryphal but a neat explanation).

"You're doing it all wrong!"
-Anon


:D

[stuey]

It seems so, shall we say, sinister to be driving on the left.

[mikey4444]

Gromit....(23:03)...what you said seems to go against what everybody else is saying....doesn't make sense at all.

[TWR]

You are right Mikey.

[TWR]

Let me know what days you go out Gromit, I will stop in.

[mikey4444]

Thought so TWR !

Thanks.

[Prudie]

What Gromit says seems a recipe for disaster - particularly if you go that way and someone from the first exit joins in the left lane and then you have to cut across them.

[Old_Geezer]

I find it more sinister if folk came at me from the left.

Can't believe a simple roundabout question has gone to three pages :-)

[retrocop]

Gromit
Makes no sense to me either. If you approach a RAB travelling North in O/s lane and wish to carry straight on eg 2nd exit what happens if the exit road is a single lane road? Any vehicle travelling on your N/s in the RAB would be either cut up by you or you would have to stop/slow down to cut in behind the n/s vehicle to exit the RAB.

[TWR]

Gromit, just think of this, I an in an Artic approaching a roundabout & you are behind me, I am going straight ahead but in the off / s / Lane, where are you going to end up?