Turning right: do you indicate left or right at this junction?

harveybobbles

penguingirl wrote: »

I would definitely indicate right as you are crossing the traffic (i.e. it is a definite left turn). Vans (and anything bigger) must have fun doing the left turn!

To be honest, its a 3ton limit road anyway, so lorries wont use it - though I did see a coach use it lol.

neilmcl

Question yourself "why are you indicating"? If the answer is to let other road users, particularly oncoming from your right, your intentions then you signal right. Signalling left would a, not be seen by oncoming vehicles and b, be totally confusing to those you're about to pull in front off.

colino

When they painted the road markings they had to take into consideration even the thickest of motorists. Hence it doesn't jut in, have chevrons or anything else confusing. Where the minor road joins the main carriageway the give way road marking makes the minor road perpendicular to the main one. It is fooling the brain into seeing it as a controlled T-junction. Indicating left when turning right is even worse than no indication at all.

Gordon_Hose

Indicate right. It's not a slip road.

londonTiger

technically speaking the angle of the road should not matter, it is a T road, and if you are turning left you indicate left and vice versa.

IMHO, the orientation of the car should be enough to tell you which direction the car is intending to go.

Strider590

If people can't get it right on a roundabout (yes im talking about the f**kwits who take the LH lane and indicate right to go straight over), then what hope have we got on a road as poorly designed as that????

londonTiger

Strider590 wrote: »

If people can't get it right on a roundabout (yes im talking about the f**kwits who take the LH lane and indicate right to go straight over), then what hope have we got on a road as poorly designed as that????

To be honest, unless you're building a town from scratch like Manhattan or Barcelona where you can make all the streets into neat square grids, it's pretty difficult to plan roads exactly how you want where people have already built homes to line up in a certain way.

It's dictated to what land the have available to build on, many of the roads were grandfathered in as well, like roads that used to be for horse carts and village lanes that it didn't matter how they joined up,

LutonGirl

I'd indicate right. Even though the road bends, it is a T junction.

HappyMJ

I'd indicate right...but I do understand that some people thinking that they will be initially be turning the steering wheel left then right to get into the left lane of the main carriageway may indicate left. I'd just be very careful at those intersections. Lots of eye contact with drivers and proceed at a reasonable pace...There is a huge blind spot if you approach at the angle of the dark car..I would approach the road at more of a right angle to turn right so I could see the approaching cars coming from the left.

Ezmondino

Indicate right.
There's a similar road near me, but on the other side of the road. People indicate right to go left like it's a sliproad. You're not entering a dual carriageway!