I Just Got Given The Finger...

[jon bda]

...by a VERY old lady . Her and her husband attempted to drive their Fiesta into the side of my Slaguna at a roundabout after going in the wrong lane which led to lots of horn-honking from him and another sigh of 'not again' from me.

Anyway, i head off down the road and pull up outside the shop in the next village, get out lock the car and who comes pootling over the level crossing but Mr Blue Fiesta. I give the universal hand signals for 'get some new ******* glasses', and the reply was his missus (who was 80 if she was a day ) giving me the finger...lovely...

P.S. They did actually pull up (in the middle of the main road ) as if to give me a piece of their mind. I was ready to explain the finer points of negotiating a roundabout and suggest a read of a post 1940's Highway Code but they drove off. Lucky for me i suppose, would of been just my luck he keeled over after ranting and raving at me.

[Konan555]

The town cloest to me has a roundabout at the bypass. One confuses old people and one confuses BMW drivers.

The old people havn't grasped that the big arrow on the road is telling them to use the right hand lane to go stright over.

On the other roundabout BMW drives have yet to work out that if I'm in the left lane NOT indicating left I'm going to go stright over.

So on a journey round the bypass you can recive a dent om either side.

[tiggerai]

Living in MK, it drives me mad when people can't use a roundabout properly.
you don't go straight on in the rh lane if there is only 1 lane the other side... how many times have I had to avoid a crash by prats who do that!

[Rave]

Do you not? I was under the impression that on a two lane entry roundabout you could use either lane for going straight on? Does it make a difference if the exit road only has one lane or something? I often use the outer lane for going straight on, mainly so I can scoot around dithering prats who can't time gaps properly. Naturally I would not attempt to sideswipe anyone who got onto the roundabout before me, whatever lane they joined in.

Edit: http://www.highwaycode.gov.uk/17.htm#160

Hmm. The picture shows the car going straight on using the left hand lane, the text however just says choose an appropriate lane.

[Howard]

There's a mini roundabout nearby that has three spurs.. Like this:



And it's pretty simple... You wait for the people to the right of you (Or from the yellow car's POV, green cars turning left) so it flows nicely... It's always at this one however that people seem to mess it up

Looking at the pic above... Green car is me, turning right. Red car is going left. Yellow car is stopped waiting for me. I travel across the roundabout, and then some woman in a BMW mini decides it's a good idea to go across the roundabout, causing me to have to brake rather sharply. I have honestly never seen such a confused look on someone's face in my life

Then you get other occasions (same situation as above) where EVERBODY stops... so I (green car) approach the roundabout and see rows of cars from all other directions so I slow down and prepare to stop... So does everyone else, so I think bollocks to it and drive across... It's nice to be given right of way by everyone

Quite amusing really


Edit: The roundabout above has two lanes from each direction, one for each direction.

[Konan555]

Do you not? I was under the impression that on a two lane entry roundabout you could use either lane for going straight on? Does it make a difference if the exit road only has one lane or something? I often use the outer lane for going straight on, mainly so I can scoot around dithering prats who can't time gaps properly.

You should always use the right hand lane to go stright over if there's a queue to turn left IIRC.

I think you're allowed to use the right to pass people going stright over on the left, but it's gonna count as overtaking, so watch you don't cut up a car going stright on in the left lane.

[Howard]

Tigs are you talking about a roundabout like the one in the lovely diagram above?

I.e from the point of view of the green car, someone moves to the right just to go straight on? If so, that's wrong, yes.

[Rave]

Howard I think you're getting confused- your car isn't green.

[Howard]

*looks out of my window

You're right

[Konan555]

Living in MK, it drives me mad when people can't use a roundabout properly.
you don't go straight on in the rh lane if there is only 1 lane the other side... how many times have I had to avoid a crash by prats who do that!

Unless there's somone turning left in the LH lane.

[jon bda]

The roundabout layout was the same as that basically, but without the road top centre. Its an A road going bottom right to top left, and a bypass going bottom left to top right. The A road has two lanes on the entrance to the roundabout but only a single lane exit.

[Howard]

I love roundabouts They provoke so much discussion

[Konan555]

Can someone photoshop a 318i on there with no indication turning right but going anti-clockwise?

No stereotype there.

[schmunk]

This should help, although it's for the US (i.e. left = right)

[schmunk]

Anyway, 'balls to roundabouts' I say:

[Skii]

Can someone photoshop a 318i on there with no indication turning right but going anti-clockwise?

No stereotype there.

Oh god how true is this.. (de-badged of course)