Looking the wrong way
Experience has taught me several new rules when it comes to roundabouts. This comes of having been rear-ended and rear-ending someone at a roundabout, a quite common form of collision.

If there is a vehicle in front of you, do not look right. It is the vehicle directly ahead of you which is stopping you getting onto the roundabout, not the one which might potentially be coming from the right. If you are looking to the right, then you will be at risk of hitting the vehicle in front because you are not paying attention to it. Once it has moved off onto the roundabout, then you can look right.

Similarly, ensure that you can stop, do not assume that because the vehicle in front can move, that it will, or that once it has started that it will carry on moving. I managed to rear-end someone many years ago (not badly, fortunately) because the driver hesitated and stopped again when they spotted something coming around the roundabout despite the fact that they had time to get out.

You may hate them, but take care around them. Try looking at them as a fucking enormous insurance quote waiting to happen and treat with caution (rear-end shunts are almost always deemed to be the fault of the driver behind, so it immediately wipes out your no claims).
(An eejit passing by in a purple satin skirt with sparkly bits, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 18:34, 2 replies)

Well said that man
I agree and so does my wife.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Mon 4 Apr 2011, 22:05, closed)

I utterly agree.
But that does not stop me hating them for making me have to do this.

I want to be able to assume you* can drive and will be forced to hate you if you prove otherwise.


* not meaning you you - meaning the person in front of me.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 13:21, closed)