Lane Awareness on Roundabouts?

Nasher said:
This is why I avoid going parallel with people on roundabouts. But if I'm driving a banger I just stand my ground and if they hit me, sucks to be them.
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People who play chicken with me in merge situations in my 2005 crap heap Focus make me laugh. Go on, crash your £30k+ lease car into me, see if I care. I always win.
 
never to bad round our way, there's one roundabout where it's really not clear which lane people should be in but the commonly accepted one is to go round the outside.

only issue is lorries, but then they kinda have to for some of them just to get turned right.
 
There were a few local roundabouts here that got converted into traffic-lit junctions, because people couldn't roundabout... Another is the Blackboy Roundabout, a 3-laner which features on the driving test because people stuff it up so much... despite it having rather obvious white lines on entry as well as all round and on exits!!
 
My commute is less than 2 miles yet there are 2 roundabouts where I guarantee I would have an accident every single day, if not multiple times a day, if I didn't purposefully hang back from the car I enter the roundabout alongside.

Both have 2 lanes in, one marked straight one marked right turn, no markings on the roundabout and one lane exit straight and one lane exit right. The amount of people who are going straight and just drive straight over the roundabout is unreal despite them being plenty wide enough for 2 cars.

I might get my old Corsa back with a dashcam and see how many accidents I can rack up from people cutting across me :p
 
It's the muppets that try to undertake you on a roundabout that do my head in, blocking u from moving from the inside to your exit.

That said a lot of the roundabouts this way are really badly marked and if you followed them religiously you'd miss your exit.
 
Having lived in MK for the past 5 years, I have developed a 6th sense for roundabouts and can recognize instantly if somebody is going to mess up and give them space.
That said there are a lot of roundabouts which are pretty poorly marked so I can see what might be confusing if you don't sue them regularly, it's easily done which I've come to appreciate having been in the car with learner drivers recently.
 
I actually got on the horn this week to a woman in a red beetle who I had the misfortune to follow. Not only did she feel 20mph was more than enough, on the 3 islands I followed her across she decided that give way actually means stop, apply handbrake, take some time to have a good look around and then release handbrake and pull off when, once again, you are 100% there is not car within 5 miles. I got to the 3rd where she did this, 2 of them where no cars were to be seen anywhere and got on the horn and did a shaky fist at her. I think I learned her good.
 
Every day. Had somebody cut me up switching Lanes on a roundabout today on the way home from work. Also had some idiot try and break test me in the outside lane on the m1 when he was doing 50 in a 70 with a clear road in front of him.

Always some sort of drama.
 
MORE SPEED said:
If someone is able to undertake you, surely you're in the wrong lane?
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Not if you're on your way around, but still in the inside lane and they either come hooning up behind or enter the roundabout at speed. Had someone try this on me during my bike test, braked, then tried again and almost hit the examiner coming up behind me.
 
ttaskmaster said:
Not if you're on your way around, but still in the inside lane and they either come hooning up behind or enter the roundabout at speed. Had someone try this on me during my bike test, braked, then tried again and almost hit the examiner coming up behind me.
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This or when they decide to keep going around in the outer lane blocking you from moving over for the exit.
 
theone8181 said:
Its possible they might never have been round a 2 lane roundabout during their test (not sure if theres a legal requirement to do so).
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Just because they aren't tested on something on their driving test doesn't mean they shouldn't know how to drive properly... Does the same apply to motorways?? Its not part of a driving test so no one should know how to drive on one? :confused:
 
Luckily most of the Bristol ring road system where the big multi lane roundabouts are have traffic lights and this often stops people driving like fools. However, arguably the busiest roundabout in the city at rush hour is part lights part common sense and the common sense part always goes out of the window. Each day I see people massively cutting lanes straight from the light with no indicator and causing everyone behind them to brake and hold back whilst these fools make up their mind. So frustrating
 
There's a big roundabout near us that really grinds my gears at the moment; it's got very precisely marked lanes for you to follow around, so you get the right exit - but people just do not clock them at all. They blindly stay in 'their' lane then wonder why they've got cars trying to drive through them. Makes it nigh-on impossible to use the roundabout properly if you know it.
 
Richie said:
Just because they aren't tested on something on their driving test doesn't mean they shouldn't know how to drive properly... Does the same apply to motorways?? Its not part of a driving test so no one should know how to drive on one? :confused:
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Yes, the same applies to motorways.
 
Gibbo said:
One of the slip roads onto dual carriage way near work is a dual lane slip road, yet some people get straight into right lane and then sit at 40mph, so when I blast past them on the inside at 70mph they seem hugely offended flashing their lights. Don't like being undertaken then stop sitting in the bloody fast lane going so slow you numpties or move to the right once at the bottom.
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I get this a lot. There are a few roads near me where people sit in the right hand lane. They're not overtaking, but turning right in about half a mile... after about three or four chances to turn right.

For lane discipline, I was taught it and used it on the test (4/5 years ago). But it all seems to go in one ear and out of the other for a lot, hence why so many are so **** at it.
 
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