Last night I saw two different small cars approach different mini roundabouts, both turned right by cutting the corner and leaving the small central hump to the left of their car. There were no other vehicles at either roundabout. Is it me, or is this style of driving becoming more acceptable?
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Roger
I read frequently, but only post when I have something useful to say.
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I could be wrong but I think doing that constitutes either dangerous driving or careless driving.
Something like that anyway.
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A new one I pass every day is barely large enough to be called a roundabout, and has the centre considerably offset from the exits.
In consequence it is almost impossible to get round it on the "correct" side in anything bigger than a bubble car.
Every car I have seen just drives straight across on the wrong side - exactly as they did when it was a proper junction.
I think they are ridiculous uneccessary impositions and we should all do our best to ignore and discredit them.
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Yes,see this more and more.Some mini roundabouts near me,are so off-set that you have to drive over them or risk clipping the curb
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One's actually being moved near here for that very reason. To go straight ahead without touching the roundabout required a full rotation of the wheel left, and then right, and then a horrible kink to get on the road again.
They're moving it two metres to the right.
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One's actually being moved near here for that very reason. To go straight ahead without touching the roundabout required a full rotation of the wheel left, and then right, and then a horrible kink to get on the road again.
There's one like that near me. I have been overtaken while navigating it, by a driver who just kept the steering wheel straight and hit the accelerator.
Nice.
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That used to happen here but quite often a cop car will lie in wait.
People are starting to cotton on now.
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I think they are ridiculous uneccessary impositions and we should all do our best to ignore and discredit them.
nay nay and thrice nay! the alternative is traffic lights and sitting unnecessarily on reds, or horrible right turns at T junctions where the constant stream of traffic won't let you out. i can think of two junctions around here that would be better off as mini roundabouts.
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>>I think they are ridiculous uneccessary impositions and we should all do our best to ignore and discredit them.
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TIC?nay nay and thrice nay! the alternative is traffic lights and sitting unnecessarily on reds, or horrible right turns at T junctions where the constant stream of traffic won't let you out.
I totally agree. I think they are a great invention.
I treat them as a road sharing device but must admit to not always going around them.
The most dangerous one I came about was locally.
Sub contractors set it up but there were NO signs thus causing a few panics as the familiar priorities to us locals had changed.
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>>I totally agree. I think they are a great invention.
I treat them as a road sharing device but must admit to not always going around them.
I agree and do the same thing,not on all though.But if they were not there T junctions would be a nightmare
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Highway Code
164: Mini-roundabouts Approach these in the same way as normal roundabouts. All vehicles MUST pass round the central markings except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so. Remember, there is less space to manoeuvre and less time to signal. Beware of vehicles making U-turns.
Laws RTA 1988 sect 36 & TSRGD reg 10(1), 16(1)
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You may know the one I mean Mike.
At Orrell just on Moor Road. I think they're making it into a roundabout proper by making it a foot high. I can't wait to see how buses handle it.
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I know the one you mean, the only problem I've ever had is being overtaken by people who cut straight across.
For the 99.99% of backroomers who don't know what we are on about, It might be useful to point out that in this case, the term 'mini-roundabout' is a bit misleading - it is a circle marked on the road that has a diameter greater then the length of a double decker bus.
p.s. Adam - it looks to me that not only are they moving it, but they are making it a 'real' roundabout.
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I noticed that the other day Mike.
Fortunately, I now detour through Upholland to get on the 58 which is a better drive but still plagued with stupid mini-roundabouts. Two next to each other is my favourite.
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Speaking of U-turns, I was almost hit the other day while making a slow and careful U-turn on a mini roundabout. Driver assumed I was turning right and as I passed him he floored it. We both stamped on the brakes and he cut in front of me with his horn blowing and wild gesticulations.
Am I in the wrong to do a U-turn on a mini-roundabout, and had he hit me, would I have been to fault?
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Am I in the wrong to do a U-turn on a mini-roundabout,
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NO.
For those of you who exit Heathrow Airport at Hatton Cross probably from T1/2/3 BEWARE.
At the last mini roundabout before the pedistrian bridge it is VERY common that vehicles do U turns.
Traffic going east on the A30 slips left into the airport then does a U turn out again. It is a much quicker way to, in effect turn R off the A30 due to multiple traffic lights sequences.
You can clearly see the vehicle has just entered the airport at a reasonable speed and can easily be caught out when it does not take a left turn but does a U turn at an unexpected rate of knots.
There are five mini roundabouts around the original single large roundabout - great fun!!
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Stationary at the time but obscured by a hedge, I nearly got wiped out with this behaviour; although only a 30 limit and probably not speeding, the offending driver - coming from my left and turning right in to 'my' road - did not slow for the junction and relied on cutting the corner and "missing" the circle to get round without running out of road.
My offside wing missed hers by a fag paper, and she just stared the straight ahead "I'm guilty but won't admit it" stare.
On my then regular route from work, I came across the same driver - and many others - doing the same manoueuvre countless more times. In fact, on this housing estate it appears to be the defacto way of negotiating this particular roundabout.
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According to one shrieking harpy I encountered on a mini roundabout, the rule is that you have to give way to your left. Oh yes.
How the hell I missed her I'll never know. My hearing is still suffering from the scream from the occupant of my passenger seat.
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According to one shrieking harpy I encountered on a mini roundabout, the rule is that you have to give way to your left. Oh yes.
Hopefully she'll collect her own Darwin award, but I fear that it might be collcted by someone else's passenger
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>> According to one shrieking harpy I encountered on a mini roundabout, >> the rule is that you have to give way to your >> left. Oh yes. Hopefully she'll collect her own Darwin award, but I fear that it might be collcted by someone else's passenger
Too late, as to qualify for a Darwin award you have to remove yourself from the genepool before thrusting your progeny on the unsuspecting populace. In this instance said brood were lolling around the interior of the car, wholly unrestrained.
Still, she could qualify by default if said issue are ejected from the car with sufficient force when the inevitable occurs.
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Some of the "mini-roundabouts" in my area are merely painted in white on the road.
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What\'s for you won\'t pass you by
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Too late, as to qualify for a Darwin award you have to remove yourself from the genepool before thrusting your progeny on the unsuspecting populace.
Not so.
"the rules do not disqualify nominees who have already reproduced" - see cgi.darwinawards.com/cgi/frames.pl?/rules/rules.ch...l
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>>cgi.darwinawards.com/cgi/frames.pl?/rules/rules.children.html
Toooo random! Pity the eliphant (sic)
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Most mini roundabouts round here just have a white blob painted in the middle. I'm sure I sometimes clip the blob with a rear wheel although I never blatantly drive across it.
Cheers, SS
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