(Yet) another roundabout rant...
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Three times in 10 days I've been cut up/nearly cut up in the same f
king way at exactly the same fking roundabout at the same fking time on the way home from work.
Perfectly normal roundabout - 4 NSL single carriageway roads in/out, on the approach to the roundabout the carriageway divides into two marked lanes. Left for left and straight ahead, right for........right. Simples.
So last Tuesday I approached in the left lane - going straight ahead. A dame in a fking Micra arrives in the right hand lane. Half way round the roundabout she decides she's going stright ahead and starts to pull in front of me. Cue much braking, horn blowing and swearing. She stopped, I drove by. She then proceeded to follow me for the next couple of miles flashing her bloody lights. Why, bh? YOU WERE IN THE WRONG fkING LANE! 
On Friday, same roundabout. This time it's a gayboy in a Mini Cooper, in the right hand lane - with his fking right hand indicator going. So half way round he changes from right indicator to left and tries to take up the piece of road I'm already in. Cue more horn blowing, etc. Same as above, although with less headlight flashing.
Yesterday it was a dame in a Scenic. Same again............
I should have been warned - at the previous roundabout she turned right from the left hand lane
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king way at exactly the same fking roundabout at the same fking time on the way home from work.Perfectly normal roundabout - 4 NSL single carriageway roads in/out, on the approach to the roundabout the carriageway divides into two marked lanes. Left for left and straight ahead, right for........right. Simples.
So last Tuesday I approached in the left lane - going straight ahead. A dame in a f
king Micra arrives in the right hand lane. Half way round the roundabout she decides she's going stright ahead and starts to pull in front of me. Cue much braking, horn blowing and swearing. She stopped, I drove by. She then proceeded to follow me for the next couple of miles flashing her bloody lights. Why, bh? YOU WERE IN THE WRONG fkING LANE! On Friday, same roundabout. This time it's a gayboy in a Mini Cooper, in the right hand lane - with his f
king right hand indicator going. So half way round he changes from right indicator to left and tries to take up the piece of road I'm already in. Cue more horn blowing, etc. Same as above, although with less headlight flashing. Yesterday it was a dame in a Scenic. Same again............
I should have been warned - at the previous roundabout she turned right from the left hand lane
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Edited by matchmaker on Wednesday 14th April 13:07
Look right when entering a roundabout, and left when exiting it. With that in mind, no-one will ever come to blows.
There's certainly no reason for anyone trying to take an exit to have a fit... if they can't move over because there is a car on the left, they have the option to do another lap of the roundabout and try again.
There's certainly no reason for anyone trying to take an exit to have a fit... if they can't move over because there is a car on the left, they have the option to do another lap of the roundabout and try again.
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Same deal with every roundabout in banbury. Everyone is a fking straight liner, and it's not helped by the entry lanes being marked differently to the lanes on the roundabout itself. No one knows how to treat them, some ignore the markings and some follow them to the letter. It usually ends in a mash of the horn.
king straight liner, and it's not helped by the entry lanes being marked differently to the lanes on the roundabout itself. No one knows how to treat them, some ignore the markings and some follow them to the letter. It usually ends in a mash of the horn.Some roundabouts just seem to suffer from elevated levels of tttery, for no explainable reason.
A3220, where holland park meets shepherds bush. Really logical, well laid out roundabout- 4 lanes on, lane 1 or 2 is good for left, 2 or 3 straight on, 3 or 4 for right, at least 2 lanes on every exit. Couldn't be any more simple or natural to pre-select a sensible lane for your chosen exit. Yet you can't use it without being cut up at least 3 or 4 times. It's not queue jumping as the lanes carry similar traffic levels, it's just absolutely baffling.
ttery, for no explainable reason.A3220, where holland park meets shepherds bush. Really logical, well laid out roundabout- 4 lanes on, lane 1 or 2 is good for left, 2 or 3 straight on, 3 or 4 for right, at least 2 lanes on every exit. Couldn't be any more simple or natural to pre-select a sensible lane for your chosen exit. Yet you can't use it without being cut up at least 3 or 4 times. It's not queue jumping as the lanes carry similar traffic levels, it's just absolutely baffling.
I have one of those odd roundabouts near me in High Wycombe. For some reason everyone (except me of course) uses the right hand lane for going straight on (four exits so right lane for right only). I don't know what it is about this one roundabout.
I remember coming to blows with a bloke in a van. He claimed I was undertaking him in my 'sporty' car. I was driving a diesel Corrolla at the time. All I could do was laugh and drive off.
Just a case of people leaving their brains behind when they get in the car, or the fact that the act of driving is the second or third priority when they are behind the wheel.
I remember coming to blows with a bloke in a van. He claimed I was undertaking him in my 'sporty' car. I was driving a diesel Corrolla at the time. All I could do was laugh and drive off.
Just a case of people leaving their brains behind when they get in the car, or the fact that the act of driving is the second or third priority when they are behind the wheel.
Sounds like you should stop using that roundabout? They're all out to get you I think! Lol.
Why don't you just shake your head and get on with your journey? Getting uptight "WILL NOT" change anything, and only get you uptight!! One of these days, as happened to a mate, you'll beep your horn and flash your lights and aggravate the wrong person! My mate did a similar thing a couple of years ago, flashing the lights etc, no intention of stopping or causing an arguement, just venting, but the guy he flashed at had different ideas!! Lol. He pulled my mate out his car at the next red light and punched him about the head a few times, leaving him rather dazed and with a nice black eye!!! Lol. I don't think he's flashed or sounded his horn to anyone since!!! We can laugh now!!! Lol.
Why don't you just shake your head and get on with your journey? Getting uptight "WILL NOT" change anything, and only get you uptight!! One of these days, as happened to a mate, you'll beep your horn and flash your lights and aggravate the wrong person! My mate did a similar thing a couple of years ago, flashing the lights etc, no intention of stopping or causing an arguement, just venting, but the guy he flashed at had different ideas!! Lol. He pulled my mate out his car at the next red light and punched him about the head a few times, leaving him rather dazed and with a nice black eye!!! Lol. I don't think he's flashed or sounded his horn to anyone since!!! We can laugh now!!! Lol.
Sounds like you should stop using that roundabout? They're all out to get you I think! Lol.
Why don't you just shake your head and get on with your journey? Getting uptight "WILL NOT" change anything, and only get you uptight!! One of these days, as happened to a mate, you'll beep your horn and flash your lights and aggravate the wrong person! My mate did a similar thing a couple of years ago, flashing the lights etc, no intention of stopping or causing an arguement, just venting, but the guy he flashed at had different ideas!! Lol. He pulled my mate out his car at the next red light and punched him about the head a few times, leaving him rather dazed and with a nice black eye!!! Lol. I don't think he's flashed or sounded his horn to anyone since!!! We can laugh now!!! Lol.
Why don't you just shake your head and get on with your journey? Getting uptight "WILL NOT" change anything, and only get you uptight!! One of these days, as happened to a mate, you'll beep your horn and flash your lights and aggravate the wrong person! My mate did a similar thing a couple of years ago, flashing the lights etc, no intention of stopping or causing an arguement, just venting, but the guy he flashed at had different ideas!! Lol. He pulled my mate out his car at the next red light and punched him about the head a few times, leaving him rather dazed and with a nice black eye!!! Lol. I don't think he's flashed or sounded his horn to anyone since!!! We can laugh now!!! Lol.
When I was a field engineer some time back, I was on a two laned roundabout somewhere in Cornwall on my way home again.
I was goiong round this roundabout, there were a couple of cars in front of me.
The car frontmost car was a stereotype old lady in a micra wobbling all over the place and going veerrrryyy sllooooowly round when suddenly, just past a turnoff, she stopped and decided to REVERSE BACK round the roundabout
.
What made matters worse is, she did not even apparently want to check behind her before she pulled off this frankly baffeling move, so the car in front of me, and myself had to swerve off into different directions as she tried to plough into us.
After she wombled off down the juntion, me and other car in front pulled into a nearby side road, and decided to call the police to advise them (he was a decent chap and was also shaken up).
Police were not interested. At all.
As has been posted on here already - defensive driving. I learnt a very valuable lesson that day - expect the unexpected no matter how fking stupid it may appear to be...
I was goiong round this roundabout, there were a couple of cars in front of me.
The car frontmost car was a stereotype old lady in a micra wobbling all over the place and going veerrrryyy sllooooowly round when suddenly, just past a turnoff, she stopped and decided to REVERSE BACK round the roundabout
.What made matters worse is, she did not even apparently want to check behind her before she pulled off this frankly baffeling move, so the car in front of me, and myself had to swerve off into different directions as she tried to plough into us
.After she wombled off down the juntion, me and other car in front pulled into a nearby side road, and decided to call the police to advise them (he was a decent chap and was also shaken up).
Police were not interested. At all.
As has been posted on here already - defensive driving. I learnt a very valuable lesson that day - expect the unexpected no matter how f
king stupid it may appear to be...
same issues with a roundabout near me, goes from D/C to two S/C, like a fork in the road, with a roundabout. LH lane goes up the road to the left, RH lane goes 2nd exit.
AT LEAST once a week, someone in the LH lane stays there and gets upset when someone moves accross on them!
ITS fkING SIGNPOSTED YOU STUPID we!!!!!!!!
AT LEAST once a week, someone in the LH lane stays there and gets upset when someone moves accross on them!
ITS f
kING SIGNPOSTED YOU STUPID we!!!!!!!!matchmaker said:
So half way round he changes from right indicator to left and tries to take up the piece of road I'm already in.
Just to make it clear, did you go more than half way round the roundabout in the left hand lane?If the same things happens 3 times in 10 days are you sure it's not you reading the road incorrectly? Just to play devils advocate
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