How do you indicate going straight over (second exit) a normal roundabout?

[symyjym]

Great thread.

I will add, as I do every time roundabouts are brought up on NSC, that Seven Dials isn't as much fun as it used to be.

Agree, but it now gives the less confident driver a chance. Unless other drivers drive directly over the cobbled area instead of using the road that is.

 

[Murray 17]

In the late 1980s. We were told that the only people who should be in the outside lane are those who will be exiting at the next junction.

 

[glasfryn]

Is it a mini roundabout or not?
Mini Roundabout no indication just straight over.
Normal Roundabout wait till you've passed the first exit and then indicate left.

this until you are sideswiped by a German in a German car with German registration who thinks he is still driving in his homeland
plenty of damage and the insurance paid out (awaiting the outcome and the next insurance charges), we had our boot door kicked in and they doubled our insurance
otherwise this is absolutely correct

 

[Murray 17]

When did you take your test then? Also, there aren't many roundabouts that have three lanes on the entry.

In the late 1980s. We were told that the only people who should be in the outside lane are those who will be exiting at the next junction.

 

[papajaff]

Left hand lane. Indicate left after 1st exit (unless signs indicate otherwise )

What are you, a bloody driving instructor?

 

[maltaseagull]

just floor it

So, you must have driven in Malta then

Stare straight ahead DO NOT LOOK to the right!

 

[Bwian]

What are you, a bloody driving instructor?

I've seen you drive-you should give him a call.

 

[papajaff]

I've seen you drive-you should give him a call.

I feel like I've known him for years

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Those type of roundabouts tend to be at major interchanges. Surely you shouldn't have any vehicle coming around fast on your left hand side! The driver on the left should be giving way to you, as on any roundabout.

There are two such roundabouts between Bracknell Towers and Falmer (Beddingham and Southerham). I don't think either of them are what would be called "major interchanges". The jet lanes serve single carriageways, not dual carriageways. Neither of them present any difficulties to drivers who have become well used to faster moving traffic joining slower vehicles from the left.

 

[glasfryn]

So, you must have driven in Malta then

Stare straight ahead DO NOT LOOK to the right!

or Wales they just drive straight over any of them

 

[Wrong-Direction]

or Wales they just drive straight over any of them

There's roads in Wales?

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

Would it not depend on road markings and signs approaching the roundabout given that many have left lane for left turn only with exits 2 and 3 being right hand lane

Agree with this

there is one near me that has no markings on the road but a sign goes up every now and then to say which lane. this has changed probably 5 times since I moved to there.

As such most people ignore the two lanes and drive in the middle of them. Saves any issues

 

[Birdie Boy]

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This is a prime example near me.
Where I would go straight across the RA, by the white building, I normally have to indicate left when past the first turning on left.
It's amazing how many cars pull out in front of you!

Surely, this should be left lane for turning left and right lane for straight on and right? If you are in right lane turning left, then you are a knob, not literally you, and if you are the silver car and expecting car in the right lane to turn left, then they are a knob.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Surely, this should be left lane for turning left and right lane for straight on and right? If you are in right lane turning left, then you are a knob, not literally you, and if you are the silver car and expecting car in the right lane to turn left, then they are a knob.

You would think so about what you have said about the left & right lanes.
I've been up here for 20 years, and apparently that's the way it's always been.
I suppose cars etc, we're a lot smaller way back when, road and roundabout catering for today's monsters.
Anyway brass knobs to you to

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

in the town I live there are 2 roundabouts where the cars joining the roundabout have priority (one's sign posted the other is local knowledge)

when friends & family visit me for the first time wonder what the hell is going on

as for bigger roundabouts at rush hour,it's like a version of the Red Arrows in cars (so many near misses)

indicate,you'll be lucky,that gives the game away

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

So, you must have driven in Malta then

Stare straight ahead DO NOT LOOK to the right!

the Maltese are crazy!

 

[WATFORD zero]

What are you, a bloody driving instructor?

Some poeple just DISPLAY a natural AIR of auhtority

 

[drew]

There are two such roundabouts between Bracknell Towers and Falmer (Beddingham and Southerham). I don't think either of them are what would be called "major interchanges". The jet lanes serve single carriageways, not dual carriageways. Neither of them present any difficulties to drivers who have become well used to faster moving traffic joining slower vehicles from the left.

My bad. I had it in my head you were talking about lanes marked on the roundabout that guide you to your exit not lanes that, in effect, bypass the roundabout itself.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

If on a bicycle, don't indicate, don't look, ignore all other traffic, ignore any lights, keep going regardless, don't give a Play the victim when you hit something.

 

[C1 BHA]

Just behave like the vast majority and don't indicate at all, ever. It's dead tiring moving that little lever up and down next to the steering wheel.


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