Just witnessed an accident 3838Arif Khokar Sorry, forgot for a moment that you drive on the wrong side of the road ;) Here's the rules in NZ where we drive on the left and go clockwise around roundabouts...
Old Wolf
This may help explain the reasoning:
Except that such roundabouts cannot be used for major intersections with higher speed traffic.
Well, it's even worse than what you think considering we drive on the right side of the road. From your description, it appears that I start signalling a little late when going through the roundabout. I'll keep that in mind the next time I drive through there.
I've yet to observe anyone signalling to exit a roundabout here.
Sometimes those types of situations "trick" me into stopping when it's not necessary when I'm not familiar with the area. This comes from the fact that a merge lane is not always available. The solution to that problem IMO is to not post a yield sign.
That doesn't quite make sense. If I'm in the roundabout, yield signs don't apply to me. If I'm outside and see no cars are coming, I don't really slow down more than I need to to negotiate the roundabout. If I do see a car on the near side of the roundabout, I slow down and try to get behind him.
That's true. IIRC, traffic engineers here say a single lane roundabout handles up to 25,000 vehicles per day (VPD).
