Indicating on a roundabout

CHR15

By this logic there is no point stopping at a Red Light if you can see the road is clear! What's the point if there is no-one to benefit from you stopping??

The OP is an incompetant clown with absolutley no grasp of competant driving whatever.
No doubt drags a caravan with orange curtains wearing a tweed hat.

nobblyned

Originally Posted by nobblyned
...Not indicating left before your exit may lead people to be held up unnecssarily, but indicating right is no use to man nor beast. If I saw someone in the left hand lane indicating right I would just think they had left it on in error, and make no assumptions about their intentions

BritRael wrote: »

Better not tell the highway code that. They recommend it for turning right.

Precisely! And when don't they recommend it?

When you going straight ahead !!!!!!!!



If you are going to be wrong, at least be consistently wrong :rolleyes:.

cyclonebri1

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

Unless it's a mini roundabout, when realistically there is no time.

!!!!!! sake, no time to signal ?:wall::wall::wall::wall::wall::wall:

malkie76

CHR15 wrote: »

By this logic there is no point stopping at a Red Light if you can see the road is clear! What's the point if there is no-one to benefit from you stopping??

Red lights are used when you cannot fully see if the road is clear (or used for traffic control). When there is a junction where you can adequately see all angles there is typically a give-way rather than a traffic light. ie the situation you describe doesn't exist.

gaz_jones

My driving instructor told me to watch out for people indicating right when they are going straight on. Apparantly a lot of old people were taught to do this whilst doing lessons. A few years later it was decided it wasn't the best way to do it. Or something like that. Was a good 4 years ago so can't remember word for word.


ITs as simple as:

Turning left = Indicate left
Turning right = Indicate right until you are about to come off then indicate left
Going straight = Don't indicate until you have gone past the junction before the one you want to exit on. Once you are there indicate left.


Simples.

nobblyned

malkie76 wrote: »

Red lights are used when you cannot fully see if the road is clear (or used for traffic control). When there is a junction where you can adequately see all angles there is typically a give-way rather than a traffic light. ie the situation you describe doesn't exist.

The traffic control usage being as common as the non-clear junction usage, possibly more so. Which rather renders your argument that the situation wouldn't exist as invalid.

DailyClicker

gaz_jones wrote: »

ITs as simple as:

Turning left = Indicate left
Turning right = Indicate right until you are about to come off then indicate left
Going straight = Don't indicate until you have gone past the junction before the one you want to exit on. Once you are there indicate left.

Just wanted to add to this as it's how I was taught:

Turning left = Left hand lane
Turning right = Right hand lane
Going straight = Left hand lane

CHR15

malkie76 wrote: »

Red lights are used when you cannot fully see if the road is clear (or used for traffic control). When there is a junction where you can adequately see all angles there is typically a give-way rather than a traffic light. ie the situation you describe doesn't exist.

So you've never come across a traffic light controlled junction where you can see if the approaching roads are clear without the light being green??

You don't live in, or drive in any town or road I have driven on in over 20yrs of driving.

tomstickland

BritRael wrote: »

1) Turning left, get in the left lane and indicate left - we agreed.
2) Going straight ahead, either lane, do not indicate - we disagreed.
3) Turning right - either lane, do not indicate - we disagreed.

1) Agree
2) Indicate left before pulling off down exit
3)Indicate right as approaching the roundabout, indicate left when approaching exit.

tomstickland

Dippychick wrote: »

I have been taught

Turning left - indicate left, left hand lane
Going straight ahead, left hand lane.. approach roundabout and once past immediate left turning, indicate left to signal that I am coming off.
Turning Right - right hand lane, right hand indicator.. although another signal left when I get to my turning... so that it is all clear..

Makes sense to me..

Exactly. This is what I was taught.