Round about car accident

Car_54

Arklight wrote: »

It went 50:50 because he was told that it was up to him to check the lane was clear before turning off.

Why did he need to be told? Hadn't he studied the Highway Code?

photome

sevenhills wrote: »

The lane that the lorry entered was clear, the OP changed lanes without checking to see if its clear, he failed to see a lorry.


Lets wait and see what the OP says, was it a large lorry, 40ft, big enough to see

as I said in my post


"Its difficult without actually seeing the collision for anyone to say for sure"


you do seem sure though. were you there?


I am also guessing the OP is female.


but it seems no one reads posts properly any more

System

photome wrote: »

but its ok for the lorry to enter the roundabout without it being clear to do so?

The problem with lorries is now that thanks to all the truck hating hand wringers, stupid idiots who don't realise how much room trucks need and successive London Mayors making every other road users responsibility that of the truck driver the rearview mirrors on the driver and passenger doors are now so large that they can hide a car. Depending on the approach speed to the roundabout of the lorry and the speed the car is going around it it is perfectly possible for the car to remain hidden from the drivers view by the mirror on the drivers side door. I've had multiple occasions where I've approached a roundabout in my truck, have been about to join and suddenly found a car in front of me and had an "Oh Sheet where the hell did that come from?" moment.

Not quite sure how you can't see a lorry though, even a tractor unit without a trailer on is over 13ft high, 8ft wide and the length of a car.

I pass the second exist I look left and indicate ready to take my third exist I am still in my right lane

As you passed the second exit you should have indicated and moved over to the left lane so by the time you got to the third lane you were in the left lane ready to exit the roundabout. What you shouldn't have done is have remained in the right lane once you'd passed the second exit, indicated left and crossed the left lane at the third exit you wanted. By being in the right lane when you reach the third exit you are indicating an intention to continue round the roundabout. The lorry may have been in the left lane because it was taking the next exit or going straight on even though that wasn't the next exit in which case it was in the correct lane.

From your description it sounds like you cut across the lorry and it is your fault.

AndyMc.....

Tarambor wrote: »

The problem with lorries is now that thanks to all the truck hating hand wringers and stupid idiots who don't realise how much room trucks need the rearview mirrors on the driver and passenger doors are now so large that they can hide a car. Depending on the approach speed to the roundabout of the lorry and the speed the car is going around it it is perfectly possible for the car to remain hidden from the drivers view by the mirror on the drivers side door. I've had multiple occasions where I've approached a roundabout in my truck, have been about to join and suddenly found a car in front of me and had an "Oh Sheet where the hell did that come from?" moment.

The truck driver is in the wrong, he joined the roundabout and hit you. I'm not excusing it but merely explaining how it could have happened from their point of view.

So careless driving on your part then.

System

AndyMc..... wrote: »

So careless driving on your part then.

See edited post once I'd re-read the OPs. Not careless driving but the rest of it is valid and you've only your lorry hating selves to blame for its creation.

Aylesbury_Duck

Yeah, bloody lorries. Always causing tailbacks, damaging roads, polluting our air and driving dangerously.

Why hasn't my stuff arrived? I ordered it yesterday and it's not here!

What do you mean, Tesco has run out of milk?

KFC has run out of chicken? !!!!!!.

Attitudes to lorries are similar to those about electricity. Everyone expects cheap electricity 24/7 but no one wants power stations, transformers, pylons, wind turbines, substations or the roads digging up to service cables anywhere near their houses or on their route to work. Put it all somewhere else!!

AndyMc.....

Tarambor wrote: »

See edited post once I'd re-read the OPs. Not careless driving but the rest of it is valid and you've only your lorry hating selves to blame for its creation.

Ignoring your blind spots and ploughing into a roundabout hoping a car doesn't appear is below the standard expected of a competent driver and therefore careless.

custardy

Tarambor wrote: »

See edited post once I'd re-read the OPs. Not careless driving but the rest of it is valid and you've only your lorry hating selves to blame for its creation.

Always someone elses fault eh?
Still happy to have vehicles with car size+ blind spots and say well thats just how it is.
How about you pop back to the 20mph thread and answer the replies to another of your hilarious posts?

Guerillatoker

Surely a lorry entering a roundabout should hold back regardless of what lane the OP is in or indicated correctly, seeing as they often need more room than their lane gives them to enter the roundabout?

kinger101

We have no idea what the lanes on the roundabout were like. It's plausible OP should have remained in the righthand lane (if the exit had two lanes) and that they drifted into a filter lane which the lorry driver didn't need to stop for.

It will be the insurance company that decides, but it could well go 50/50.