Ignorant drivers are roundabouts in the driving test anymore?

Car_54

buglawton wrote: »

I use 2 small roundabouts in the countryside, a lot of commuters. Visibility of the 4 roads leading off it is poor due to hedges. Yet drivers do not slow down on approaching or entering. If it looks clear from 30m away, just sail in. Not sure what the highway code has to say about that.

Why not? Every driver should know. It's readily availale free. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code

Ectophile

waamo wrote: »

There is a roundabout near me that is about to undergo its third multi million pound redesign in five years.

All because people can't seem to use it properly by sticking to the correct lane and indicating.

There's a roundabout not far from me that's more of a rectangle than a circle. So there's two short sides and two long ones.


Until recently, there weren't any lanes. It was nice and simple.


Then some bright spark at the council decided to divide the two long sides into two lanes, with a dashed white line. There is nothing to indicate which lane you should be in. All the roads leading into the roundabout are single carriageway, so only one lane.


I have no idea which lane I am supposed to use.:huh:

sheramber

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-159-to-203

Rule 185

When reaching the roundabout you should

...........................
watch out for all other road users already on the roundabout; be aware they may not be signalling correctly or at all

Rule 187

In all cases watch out for and give plenty of room to

...........................


traffic crossing in front of you on the roundabout, especially vehicles intending to leave by the next exit

unholyangel

waamo wrote: »

There is a roundabout near me that is about to undergo its third multi million pound redesign in five years.

All because people can't seem to use it properly by sticking to the correct lane and indicating.

We're the opposite. Had a roundabout people were using fine. Then the local council decided to let someone redesign it - someone who doesn't have any experience of driving.

It previously was a 2 lane roundabout due to the large number of HGVs that use it. They've decided to make it 3 lanes now. If you don't use it on a regular basis, its impossible to tell which lane you should be in and doesn't help that its a huge roundabout (so can be traversed at speed) but the way the lanes change, doesn't give people the time they need to move over so they end up straddling 2 lanes and blocking traffic. The result is pandemonium.

Theres also a roundabout not far from livingston where the first roadsign shows the layout of the roundabout with livingston on the 3rd exit with one road number, the next shows which lane you should be in and has livingston signposted as the left lane but with a different road number and the road number for the 3rd exit being the right lane.

Leads to a lot of accidents/near misses.

lister

knightstyle wrote: »

There are driving instructors who tell learners to indicate right when entering a roundabout if they intend taking the second, straight ahead, exit!!!
I know this from asking my kids why they doit.
Apparently it is to tell anyone coming from the first entry not to enter the roundabout!

There either aren't such ADIs or they are incompetent. Indicating right when going ahead would result in a fault for signal correctly. Ask me how I know...

cubegame

I don't indicate at roundabouts and the right lane is the one I'm in. I normally get forced to taking the wrong lane by some slow unconfident dodderer I need to overtake

buglawton

sheramber wrote: »

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/using-the-road-159-to-203

Rule 185

When reaching the roundabout you should

...........................
watch out for all other road users already on the roundabout; be aware they may not be signalling correctly or at all

Rule 187

In all cases watch out for and give plenty of room to

...........................


traffic crossing in front of you on the roundabout, especially vehicles intending to leave by the next exit

So it doesn't say anything about slowing down as you approach the roundabout in order to assess other traffic that's just entering it? Thinking about small roundabouts here.

Ectophile

The Highway Code, section 162, says

When taking the last exit or going full circle

• Signal right and approach in the right-hand lane
• ...

So if straight on is the last exit, then you really are supposed to indicate right.

Spidernick

At least the driver was indicating, which many don't do at all these days. The worst for me is those who are taking the first exit at a roundabout but don't indicate. As such, if you are coming out of the exit that they are entering, you cannot go, as you think they are going straight on. This therefore holds up the traffic, which these idiots don't seem to realise! :mad:

jk0

Spidernick wrote: »

At least the driver was indicating, which many don't do at all these days. The worst for me is those who are taking the first exit at a roundabout but don't indicate. As such, if you are coming out of the exit that they are entering, you cannot go, as you think they are going straight on. This therefore holds up the traffic, which these idiots don't seem to realise! :mad:

I always hold my upturned palm out of the window at them sarcastically, as if to say: 'Did you want to continue on the roundabout?'