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Left lane for left and straight on, right for right?
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Four pages for the obvious answer that in the absence of road signs to the contrary red is in the wrong.
Poor lane discipline on roundabouts coupled with lack of indication is a very common problem on the roads. A particular favourite around these parts is going all the way around a flyover roundabout in the left lane, without indicating at all and expecting those cars which are on the right-hand lane but indicating left to file in behind them.
I've seen a couple of near misses like this, and it's always the left-lane dreamer who is angrily beeping and gesticulating at the innocent driver who is in the right.
If it was me and the car was close to the scrapper anyway I'd just forget to stop*.
(* not really but the temptation is there).0 -
The OP has deliberately chosen an abnormal roundabout configuration to prove their point. The rules are that you can use either lane for going straight on unless the lanes are specifically marked.
I tend to find that the sort of person that complains about this sort of thing is the same sort of person that speeds up as you start to overtake them. They just don't like others going at their own pace (within the speed limit). The police actually encourage you to drive at the fastest possible speed (within the limit and taking consideration of the conditions), they call it 'making progress'.
The Highway Code says, left lane for 1st exit, right lane for last exit, and the 'appropriate' lane for intermediate exits.
Here below is a picture of a standard roundabout configuration, this should have been used as an example for the discussion on whether you can use the righthand lane for going straight on..gif)
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The OP has deliberately chosen an abnormal roundabout configuration to prove their point.
It isn't an " abnormal " roundabout, it is a fairly standard one.
The exit in question as at more or less 12 O'Clock to the approach, the left hand lane should be used, unless indicated otherwise by road signs/markings.0 -
It isn't an " abnormal " roundabout, it is a fairly standard one.
The exit in question as at more or less 12 O'Clock to the approach, the left hand lane should be used, unless indicated otherwise by road signs/markings.
No it's not. It just skims the roundabout, it could almost have a separate filter lane that didn't even use the roundabout.0 -
Four pages for the obvious answer that in the absence of road signs to the contrary red is in the wrong.
It isn't automatically wrong. It depends upon the traffic conditions at the time. Using the lines in the photo if an HGV was stationary in the left hand lane, indicating left and waiting for a gap in the traffic one would anticipate it would to follow the course shown by the red line.
By pulling up next to it you would then be in a position to
1. Enter the roundabout before it
2. Out accelerate it
3. Exit the roundabout into the offside lane of the red line road and be on your way, probably before the HGV had even started to take the exit.
No offences. No danger. No inconvenience.
A good driver making progress safely.
Under different circumstances taking the red line would be bad.
With an almost infinite number of different possibilities it is no good religiously sticking to a guideline in the Highway Code, which is intended as general advice,if the circumstances dictate a safer option.0 -
Get lots of drivers pulling the manoeuvre shown below in red, i.e. turning left in a right lane not designated for turning left, where it is possible someone in the left lane wants to go straight on. Those who do it are often easily overtaken on the dual carriageway, so they can't be doing it to get somewhere faster! The roundabout sign prior clearly indicates that there is a straight on.
I admit I rarely take the straight on indicated in green, and few other cars do. It does go somewhere (not a no through road) but is single-track. I bet if I did want to go down there the idiots would beep their horn at me :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: and insurance in such a collision would go 50/50 or something stupid like that?
Green is also wrong, they should be in the right hand lane, to take the second exit.The greater danger, for most of us, lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark0
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