Roundabout right of way

The Yellow driver should have been aware that you have priority when turning right and should have been pre-empting that possibility even if you weren't signalling.

There's a mini roundabout I drive round most days (a proper raised one too not just painted) and I've seen several drivers recently approaching from the same direction you were and just the cut the island out completely turning right as they're too lazy to steer round it!
 
I don't know if anything has changed but during the 80s I had two incidents on roundabouts that weren't my fault however both times the Insurers said that roundabout accidents are not 100% one way or the other unless somebody had been drinking.
 
Dimple said:
I don't know if anything has changed but during the 80s I had two incidents on roundabouts that weren't my fault however both times the Insurers said that roundabout accidents are not 100% one way or the other unless somebody had been drinking.
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That sounds awfully convenient for the insurance company...
 
kcon1 said:
Green car turns right, yellow car slams into passenger side door. Green car had right of way, correct?

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I don't know on which planet the green car could be held responsible for the collision. Never seen such an open and closed case, tbh!

Although, people will just talk complete BS when they know they've made a mistake. My only crash involved a girl pulling out of a side road without looking and t-boning me. She tried to blame me with some BS story, but fortunately nobody was buying it. Maybe the shock creates some sort of denial?
 
MooMoo444 said:
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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Which is what I said after that sentence..:p

I only said this in case it might have been the reason the driver of the yellow car felt it wasn't his fault and would at least explain somewhat why on earth the yellow car thinks the green car was in any way at fault.

I wonder what would happen if there were witnesses that could verify someone was indicating incorrectly? I wonder if then, said person could have some contributory negligence chucked at them.
 
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Curio said:
I don't know on which planet the green car could be held responsible for the collision.
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If the yellow car had already been on the roundabout when it entered (which would have made the accident pretty impossible and is obviously not what happened here as evidenced by where the damage is on the cars).
 
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