Soldato
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Junction in Question:
Basically the lights on this junction are set up as if it were a crossroads, even though the right and left roads don't exactly line up.
Imagine I'm coming up from the bottom of the picture, in the right hand lane, indicating to turn right. The lights are green. Ahead there is a chap in a blue car sitting in the middle of the junction waiting for a chance to turn onto the left hand road, but cant yet as the inside lane of the road coming from the bottom has traffic. Fair enough, he's supposed to wait there for his chance to go.
So as I'm rolling up to the junction I notice that the road I want to turn right into is a bloody fair bit behind the car waiting in the middle of junction, this isn't normally the case at a crossroads, its usually directly to its left. The road looked clear enough behind Mr blue car chap, so not knowing what else to do, I just done this:
PS: I've just noticed I've decided to draw myself in a hot pink car. Take what you will from that.
...which to my surprise, got me beeped at by the chap in the yellowy green car, even though there was loads of room, probably as for a second or two I was driving at him in his lane. The chap in the blue car also decided I was being a suitably useless driver and felt the need to flip me the finger.
To be fair, when doing the turn it "felt" odd, like that sort of sinking feeling you get when you look behind you in your mirror and notice that the light you went though is actually red.
Though thinking over it, I can't really see any other way about it I could have taken. I could hardly have approached the junction indicating to turn right, and then stop BEHIND Mr Blue Car, as if the lane to my left had emptied, he's going to take his turn, and not expect me, turning right, to try and drive past him. Could have ran into him or had him run into me.
I'm rambling. Basically OCUK, was I in the wrong?
Basically the lights on this junction are set up as if it were a crossroads, even though the right and left roads don't exactly line up.
Imagine I'm coming up from the bottom of the picture, in the right hand lane, indicating to turn right. The lights are green. Ahead there is a chap in a blue car sitting in the middle of the junction waiting for a chance to turn onto the left hand road, but cant yet as the inside lane of the road coming from the bottom has traffic. Fair enough, he's supposed to wait there for his chance to go.
So as I'm rolling up to the junction I notice that the road I want to turn right into is a bloody fair bit behind the car waiting in the middle of junction, this isn't normally the case at a crossroads, its usually directly to its left. The road looked clear enough behind Mr blue car chap, so not knowing what else to do, I just done this:
PS: I've just noticed I've decided to draw myself in a hot pink car. Take what you will from that.
...which to my surprise, got me beeped at by the chap in the yellowy green car, even though there was loads of room, probably as for a second or two I was driving at him in his lane. The chap in the blue car also decided I was being a suitably useless driver and felt the need to flip me the finger.
To be fair, when doing the turn it "felt" odd, like that sort of sinking feeling you get when you look behind you in your mirror and notice that the light you went though is actually red. Though thinking over it, I can't really see any other way about it I could have taken. I could hardly have approached the junction indicating to turn right, and then stop BEHIND Mr Blue Car, as if the lane to my left had emptied, he's going to take his turn, and not expect me, turning right, to try and drive past him. Could have ran into him or had him run into me.
I'm rambling. Basically OCUK, was I in the wrong?
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