Roundabout right of way

most people these days are idiots at roundabouts, the latest trend seems to be indicating left but going right or just not indicating and going all the way round
 
This has been the case since the dawn of time though. When it comes to roundabouts you should not pay any attention to where people are indicating and assume it's not where they will actually go. That was lesson no.1 when I learnt to drive and served me well. I had to learn the hard way that people indicating left into junctions you are pulling out of also means jack **** and when they hit you it is your fault ;)
 
I'm going to bet that yellow thought you were wrong because yellow thinks mini roundabouts are the same as T junctions, rather than roundabouts.
 
I know you could say it's only semantics - but there is no such concept of Right of Way in UK traffic law, so don't use the phrase in any statement or letter - use - has priority or give way.
 
As everyone else has said, yellow should have given way.

EDIT: A little tip; rather than watch a car to see whtehr it's going to drive out of a road, junction, driveway, etc, I look at their front wheel. You can often see small movements in the wheel roration before you notice the car moving.
 
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I'll go with the majority on this and agree, the yellow car is at fault. I was always taught on a roundabout that anything already on there has right of way.
 
So few people seem to know how to use a roundabout properly.

Those and merge in turn junctions.
 
Funnily enough I had almost exactly the same situation on Friday on the way to my mum and dads at a mini roundabout. I was green and I had to stop on the roundabout due to the yellow car driver being a complete coco and not stopping despite me being on the roundabout and also indicating. I had even turned my wheel that's how far round the roundabout I was. I just dint know how these people manage to survive driving with having accidents although as op has posted not all do.
 
Yellow car at fault obviously.

It's also funny that you can visibly see the age difference between posters (older drivers were taught to give way to traffic from the right, younger drivers too give way to traffic on the roundabout).
 
Clarkey said:
cheesyboy said:
If you'd hit his side door, there could be some argument, but with you having right of way and him hitting the side of your car, there's no contest.
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No there wouldn't, pull out in front of someone it is your fault, regardless what kind of junction/roundabout it is.
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You sure?

I can certainly imagine scenarios whereby green car could be partly or fully at fault if they had hit the side of the yellow car. I find it much more difficult to say the same with the contact made the other way around (as actually happened to the OP)
 
cheesyboy said:
You sure?

I can certainly imagine scenarios whereby green car could be partly or fully at fault if they had hit the side of the yellow car. I find it much more difficult to say the same with the contact made the other way around (as actually happened to the OP)
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Indeed,

There are far too many people who approach a mini-bout at speed, glance right to check its clear before flying across the junction at 30 or more,

Totally failing to appreciate that (especially in urban environments) visibility for joining traffic from the left might be limited and it is incumbent on "Priority" drivers to approach sufficiently slowly to enable other joining traffic (That they may have priority over) to have time to see them and react to their approach.

There is a Mini-bout near me where this problem is endemic, accidents are common!
 
MrMoonX said:
most people these days are idiots at roundabouts, the latest trend seems to be indicating left but going right or just not indicating and going all the way round
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On a roundabout the other day, was going straight ahead (4 exits, 12, 3, 6, 9 o'clock). I'm coming from 6 and going to 12, just as I'm about to pass 9 o'clock a chap pulls straight out in front of me, causing us both to slam brakes on. He then speeds off doing way more than the limit, suspect out of embarrassment.

Approaching roundabout I was in the left lane and not indicating, so surely you assume I'm going straight on, not turning left?

I think maybe it's time for a dash cam :p Plenty of eejits round here.

The best one I ever saw was a chap overtaking on a roundabout, using the oncoming lane to pass a lorry, and forcing me onto the hard shoulder. Speechless.
 
Jono8 said:
Unless you were indicating left before the exit he was coming on to the roundabout from, then i don't see how he can think it is anywhere close to being your fault.
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Still, even if the indicator was pointing left, you shouldn't assume it is their intention. Yellow would still be at fault.
 
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