New Roundabout Trend

foxy-stoat

You have to assume that everyone cannot drive or knows how to use roundabouts and adjust your driving accordingly.

Dash cams are helpful with providing some proof but always better to avoid the accident altogether to save on the non-fault premium increases !! LOL

no1catman

Sicard wrote: »

It's the non-indicating when they want to turn right and then exiting that annoys me.

For me, it's waiting at a roundabout for it to be clear for to enter to turn right, and having to stop because traffic on my right can't be bothered to indicate left before turning!!!

Ant555

NBLondon wrote: »

Do you mean they overtake and cut in - or they go 450 degrees around the roundabout passing the point they entered from? If they do the latter, indicating right and then left to leave - it isn't wrong - but unnecessary if there's only a small queue to enter.

This exact thing happens at the A34 roundabout at John Lewis Cheadle for those that want to go North towards Manchester - use right hand lane, all the way round the roundabout cutting out the queue in the 'straight on' lane.
I would say 2 at least cars per minute do this at peak times - I reckon it can save 10 minutes at busy times.

Same roundabout - you also have drivers using left lane into the industrial estate, turn around and then join the roundabout one exit on - avoiding the queue in the 'straight on' lane.
This one is probably 5 cars per minute doing this - a constant stream.

reeac

At least some of the wrongdoing can be attributed to poor or misleading signage e.g. destinations being painted on the road and being hidden from view when the traffic is dense or consecutive roundabouts displaying different sets of place names ( some distant and some just local trading estates). All very well for local experts (who do most of the roundabout complaining) but not good for first time visitors.

ThemeOne

Multi lane roundabouts can be very confusing if you don't use them all the time, so some of what you complain about as bad driving is people simply being in the wrong lane by mistake.

Nasqueron

Strider590 wrote: »

I've been forced onto the kerb of a roundabout by this behaviour on several occasions. The problem is not that people do it, the problem is they don't check for cars around them when they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsOtQT1rDU


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Have to disagree on that, the problem IS that they don't stick in lanes to go around, they do it every time regardless of if people are near or not. The roundabout on the A435 near Beckett's Farm out of Birmingham has quite a white lane one so cars never bother going around it and cars in lane 2 drive in the hashed area as a matter of course to avoid being hit

Robisere

Lane Discipline, it's called and the increasing lack of it matches the lack of self-discipline demonstrated today. People drive as if they have every right to do exactly what they want, ignoring the law and every rule of the road.

I taught my kids and I teach my grandkids my first Highway Rule: treat every other Road User as a potential lunatic who is liable to do something stupid and/or dangerous, at any given moment.

stator

Are you talking about going all the way around the roundabout to avoid a queue turning left?
Might have done that a few times myself. As long as the manouver is done with correct signals there's nothing really wrong with it. It's been around for decades.

photome

Nasqueron wrote: »

More annoying is the habit of treating a roundabout as if it didn't exist and driving straight across, cutting into the second lane instead of properly going around to the left in lane one, seen a lot of close calls where drivers in lane two have a vehicle half into their lane because the other lane is too much effort to stick in

Thats one of my pet hates. the idiots have no idea that they are doing it

Biggles

ThemeOne wrote: »

Multi lane roundabouts can be very confusing if you don't use them all the time, so some of what you complain about as bad driving is people simply being in the wrong lane by mistake.

Being in the wrong lane by mistake is bad driving.