Going round a roundabout the wrong way

Going round a roundabout the wrong way

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G-Lader

60 posts

183 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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I've got to admit, from the street view it looks quite a bit like a t-junction albeit a curvy one laugh

mybrainhurts

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90,809 posts

261 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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G-Lader said:
I've got to admit, from the street view it looks quite a bit like a t-junction albeit a curvy one laugh
In real life, it's nothing like a T junction. It's very much like a roundabout...

sebhaque

6,476 posts

187 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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Only seen this happen once and it was very late at night. It was an old Fiesta, and my mind still says it was just a few lads (probably drunk) having a laugh going the wrong way down the motorway. Still, I was alone, on an empty motorway, in the early hours of the morning (wanting to get to my missus' nice warm bed) so I wasn't hanging around... it's very wierd seeing headlights in your own carriageway. I thought it was just some idiot who still had their full beams on in the fast lane... st me right up when a car went past on my side, just a few feet from me.

Edit: oops, not exactly a roundabout but it almost fits with the thread.


Edited by sebhaque on Tuesday 5th October 23:14

Vipers

33,056 posts

234 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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No ones seems to have mentioned those bloody big CHEVRONS on the roundabout, pointing LEFT, can't really miss them rolleyes

Total irriot to have missed not only those, but not have noticed it is a roundabout, taint difficult, foreigner I wonder?




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jjr1

3,027 posts

266 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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The last time I saw someone going the wrong way round a roundabout, I was doing 60mph kneedown after a boring 2 hours on the M1 (hanger lane roundabout) and then all I saw was the inside of an ambulance.

Luckily my fingers which were all pulled out of their socket managed to find their way back in !

Lucky bh didn't get done for anything as she was a US tourist who had got lost on the M25 (heading toward Croydon) and found a roundabout but didn't know what to do when faced with it.

Vipers

33,056 posts

234 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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jjr1 said:
The last time I saw someone going the wrong way round a roundabout, I was doing 60mph kneedown after a boring 2 hours on the M1 (hanger lane roundabout) and then all I saw was the inside of an ambulance.

Luckily my fingers which were all pulled out of their socket managed to find their way back in !

Lucky bh didn't get done for anything as she was a US tourist who had got lost on the M25 (heading toward Croydon) and found a roundabout but didn't know what to do when faced with it.
Could be wrong, but don't think they have roundabouts in the states, there is one as you approach the border crossing from Vancouver to the states, it comes up on my Tom Tom as "At the rotary......." and that was the only I saw oer there, can any our our American Cousing shed some light on that?.

Thinking about it, I can't recall the last time I saw a "Roundabout" sign on approach to a roundabout, they are usually blatently obvious, and the larger ones have the CHEVRONS on them, like the one in the first post had.




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Edited by Vipers on Tuesday 5th October 23:35

Vipers

33,056 posts

234 months

Tuesday 5th October 2010
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Vidal Baboon said:
Zad said:
Yikes! My first reaction was what an idiot to go around a roundabout the wrong way, but I agree now, I can really see how that signage could be mis-interpreted. Jeez. I wonder how many accidents that has caused.
Similar thing happened in our Village.

Entry ramp off the A38 looks like a normal exit on the roundabout. I think it was last year that an old Boy entered the A38 on the off ramp & killed a young couple. Very sad.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&a...

It's the 2nd entry onto the roundabout BTW.



Edited by Vidal Baboon on Tuesday 5th October 16:37
Link comes up same as the first post?????




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XJSJohn

16,029 posts

225 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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euroboy said:
I once almost made it entirely round a roundabout in the wrong direction.

I was on a return trip to NL from the UK and was approaching the first roundabout I had to deal with (in my own village as it happens and luckily very late at night). There is some road furniture that pinches you to the middle of the road immediately before the roundabout and after the pinch I took to the left, rather than the right and proceeded to take the roundabout as if I was in the UK.

I met someone half way round and so I was so dumbfounded I even looked across at my girlfriend and said 'WTF is that moron doing coming the wrong way around' - then it dawned on us both.

Cue much reversing and apologising - it was very easily done though
I have had similar situations before when coming back to the UK after extended periods living in Europe.

Vipers

33,056 posts

234 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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mybrainhurts said:
G-Lader said:
I've got to admit, from the street view it looks quite a bit like a t-junction albeit a curvy one laugh
In real life, it's nothing like a T junction. It's very much like a roundabout...
BIG CHEVRONS POINTING LEFT difficult to miss.




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Flintstone

8,644 posts

253 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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You'd have to be brain dead to think that's a t-junction.

Vipers

33,056 posts

234 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Thinking about it, we all see drivers on the phone, fiddling with the CD player, belting a zillion watts of crap music, coupled with blinkers firmly pointed ahead, and lack of awareness of the basics of the HC, its not difficult to work out out an irriot would cock up a roundabout with a junction.

And have now you noticed now the evenings are drawing in, the same turds from last year, one headlight stuck on full beam, or both, or one not working, and the odd one with brake lights stuck on.

Do they learn nothing, do they ever check their vehicle, tossers the lot of them. I wont mention front fogs, that has been thrashed to death and back a few times on this site.




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varsas

4,030 posts

208 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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mybrainhurts said:
PS...how do you post Google Street View pics here?

Open the page/get the picture (works for anything) on screen.
Press 'print scrn' button on your keyboard (near top right, next to the 'F' buttons)
Open an image editing package (paint will do)
Go edit -> paste (or press ctrl + v)
Crop it down. (I do this by drawing round the bit I want to keep, pressing ctrl + c (copy) and then opening a new image and going ctrl + v (paste) in paint)
Save it somewhere.
Come here and click the 'upload an image (beta)' button at the top of the reply window.
Point it at the image you saved.


james_tigerwoods

16,327 posts

203 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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I used to live near that - really near - and the idiocy it would take is astounding.

Are you sure it wasn't you really? smile

mybrainhurts

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90,809 posts

261 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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james_tigerwoods said:
Are you sure it wasn't you really? smile
Moi..? I've been driving round it for 47 years, so have no difficulty in identifying it as a roundabout.

anonymous-user

60 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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To be fair, the right-hand lane marking does show a mandatory "right turn" arrow. Current guidance dictates that on the approach to a roundabout, you either have a straight-ahead, or left turn arrow, to prevent people mis-reading the lane markings and driving the wrong way...

james_tigerwoods

16,327 posts

203 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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mybrainhurts said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Are you sure it wasn't you really? smile
Moi..? I've been driving round it for 47 years, so have no difficulty in identifying it as a roundabout.
Ahhh - that clearly marks yourself out as an old duffer - perhaps you got a little confused biggrin

mybrainhurts

Original Poster:

90,809 posts

261 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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james_tigerwoods said:
mybrainhurts said:
james_tigerwoods said:
Are you sure it wasn't you really? smile
Moi..? I've been driving round it for 47 years, so have no difficulty in identifying it as a roundabout.
Ahhh - that clearly marks yourself out as an old duffer - perhaps you got a little confused biggrin
I left you an opening to exploit the ambiguity of circumnavigating the roundabout for 47 years. Your failure to grasp this and run with it demonstrates mental disorder...

But fear not, I shall summon an ambiwlans for you forthwith...hehe

Munter

31,326 posts

247 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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Given you'd have to pass this sign:



Exactly how would you think that's a T junction. Or was the drivers short term memory really that bad!

mybrainhurts

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90,809 posts

261 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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I'd guess he was wearing a Sheffield United shirt....



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anonymous-user

60 months

Wednesday 6th October 2010
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I'd say that the sign has no statutory meaning, but the road marking does?

Edited by Opulent on Wednesday 6th October 14:41