Opinion on roundabout

whitecrook

whitecrook

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This roundabout :

http://maps.google.co.uk/?ie=UTF8&ll=56.085647,-3.90461&spn=0.001362,0.003449&t=k&z=18

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Paint skills with a clit mouse... (entering the rounabout from the top, obviously)

this round about is just before the M80 heading south of stirling/bannockburn

I had occasion to be in the area I don't know the roads and I was heading the the M80 obeying speedlimits and reading signs as you do when in unfamiliar area looking for the way out...

anyway I took the path by the green line, and some **** in a Focus/RS/ST or something was approaching at speed and he went round on the red line.
I was going straight over the round about and I approached in the right hand lane I entered the roundabout. I thought the round about was 2-on-2off but actually it's 2-on-1off (with a very wide exit) After I had entered the Focus tried to overtake me on the nearside but drawing half level with me as I left the round about on the other side. As you do I looked and saw he was there I took the wide green line on the exit as there is plenty of room for 2 cars here but it does then narrow to one lane.

The focus guy was pure blasting his horn from about when he drew up beside me. I just ignored him and carried on. and He then charged off at the next roundabout further down the road.

Just wondering what your opinions on this is.
should I have been in the left hand lane entering the roundabout?
should the focus driver have allowed me to exit without having to 'give him room'?
Was it sloppy of him to try and overtake on the nearside round a roundabout?

Should I have either braked hardish and allowed him PLENTY room to pass on the inside, or went round again?
 
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Sounds like you can be in either lane 1 or lane 2 coming onto the roundabout to go straight on, with straight on having a short section of merge-in-turn.. but hard to say for sure without seeing any road markings. And Yes to c).
 
Generally ive always gone on the assumption that if you are exiting a lane that is before 12 o'clock (left or straight on) you stick to the left hand lane, if you are going past 12 o'clock even if its straight over but the exit is not directly ahead you use the right hand lane.

Sounds like the focus driver was just an impatient idiot though so wouldnt worry about it.
 
Personally I would have used the red line, as you are taking the second exit / going straight across. Even if the exit is after 12 o'clock (which it isn't) it's still only the second exit so should be treated no differently than if travelling in a straight line across.
 
He was in the right to start with, however we all make mistakes, as long as you gave warning before coming off "out of place" and checked your mirrors theres not normally a problem with most drivers.

The focus driver sounds like a complete tool however.
 
BluZiff said:
He was in the right to start with, however we all make mistakes, as long as you gave warning before coming off "out of place" and checked your mirrors theres not normally a problem with most drivers.
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That's how I see it too.

1st & 2nd exits - use left lane.
3rd & 4th exits - use right lane.

However, if I was in that position and someone is in the other lane, as long as they'd indicated, I'd let 'em in.
 
I get this all the time on a roundabout on my way home from work (exit after 12 physically but at 12 on the roundabout map sign). I always take left lane and some people take right. Now even though I am in the correct lane I still sometimes get people in the right lane giving abuse when they see that I'm in their way..
 
Yeah cheers. So kind of as I thought that What I did was Ok, and technically the Focus guy could've took his route, but without the need to aggressively try to pass and sound his horn. Looking at the roundabout It's actually a single carraige way the opens up onto two entrances to the roundabout. The left hand lane leads essentially directly to the first exit with the hatching, but as said theres no reason why you can't take the left hand lane round to the 'straight on' exit. Just not try and undertake somebody while doing that.

The Focus driver probalby could have passed me if he was more committed but I got the feeling he'd rather toot his horn than plant it and pass me. I left enough space and I wasn't exactly moving fast. Guess he must have been in some mega emergency hurray.
 
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