Just witnessed an accident 3836

Arif Khokar

Wow, that sounds really bad. What is the point of such a construct?

Might be a good way of helping Darwin out. Especially when beater Mercs run off the side of it and flip.

They're morons. The correct move is to indicate left once you have pbutted the roundabout exit just before yours (so that traffic entering from your exit knows it can go without waiting for you). But this is too much for some peoples' mental faculties and they do dumb poo like indicating left the whole time, or indicating right as they exit the roundabout.

Yes, there are as many yield-impaired people as there are merge-impaired people. At the start of a motorway in my area, there is a large 4-way intersection. To cut a long story short, the motorway has a very wide left (slow) lane at the start. So it is easy for people entering it from the slip lane to merge with people coming through from the other side of the intersection turning or going straight through onto the motorway.

But all the time, people just stop halfway along the slip lane waiting for traffic to clear. Now they've added a traffic light to the slip lane that's red when traffic is coming from the other side. Sigh.

If you are the sort to not slow down at the yield sign if there is no car to yield to, then you catch people who should yield to you by surprise (they enter the roundabout buttuming that you're going to slow down a bit at least).

They work best at medium traffic volumes. They cause trouble if the traffic volume is large and one entry has more traffic coming from it than the other entries. Then all the traffic at the entry after the main road is stuck until a car happens to come from an entry before the main road.