Okay, I'm going to jump off the fence...
In my view person going up hill priority. Though if you have a good car may not be trouble stopping and starting on the hill, little Mrs Smith down the road in her 950cc popular plus will spend the next half hour winding it up again.
Surely you would give way to a truck coming up the hill? If a truck, what about a transit? If a transit, what about a astra with two ladders and boot of tools? It would be hard to draw a line what will struggle so should be allowed a clear run up the hill. Therefore going up hill must be the overriding priority.
As to take longer to brake going down- perhaps true but must be going too fast in that case. Should anticipate and allow for the circumstances and rules of the road.
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Oh, and another thing..........
Imagine a conventional four way roundabout - right - let's call the approaches/exits 3o'clock, 6 o'clock, 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock, everybody ok so far?
As seems to be fairly typical round here (deep sarf) the approach is two lane, but the exit is one lane, now traffic approaching the roundabout, will keep to the left hand lane if intending to take the first exir. The traffic taking the third exit will use the right hand lne.
What do you do, (who has priority) if a vehicle is approaching from the six o'clock position and is intending to take the second exit (twelve o'clock) who has right of way when the road narrows to single lane? In other words which lane should you be in, the left lane, or the right lane?
Your thoughts would be appreciated.
Regards to all
Don drbe
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Norwich has several of these. Rule seems to be choose whichever lane you like, and make sure you're quickest off the blocks! Quite silly, but the Norfolk drivers seem to manage it without too much mayhem, even for those whose knuckles drag on the floor whilst driving....
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I posed a similar query a while back and didn't really get a response. I was told when I was learning that unless told otherwise, left hand lane was for exits 1 and 2, right hand lane for exit 3. Someone commented that if exit 2 is past 'straight ahead' then this should be the right hand lane as well, but I'm not so sure about this.
As has been commented on elsewhere, here in Stockport some drivers tend to take a 'who dares wins' approach which has led to several very near misses.
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CM - so the highway code is wrong then?? Terry
I have absolutely no idea as I haven't read it for about 15 years.
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