A few days ago, I was driving and came to a mini painted roundabout. I believe the rules are roughly the same as for other roundabouts. You go around the circle.
As I approached the roundabout, I slowed down to give way to the car on my right. It was going staight on in the direction I was coming from. There was a slow down for some reason and it had to stop on the roundabout waiting for the cars in front of it to move on.
As this car had stopped and was blocking the roundabout on my right, I moved on. However, the car behind it did not wait for it to move on and just turned right and drove over the circle on the roundabout and nearly hit me. It did not wait to use the circle motion, but literally turned a right angle.
Who was in the wrong here? I think it was the other driver. Because it was a roundabout, it was give way to the right. The car on my right had stopped and therefore I had no one on my right to give way to at that time. The car that hit me did not go around the roundabout. If it was like a junction, then I had right of way to move straight on and should not have been nearly hit by someone moving onto a different road from the opposite side.
If you didn't go around a roundabout in your driving test and instead just turned right over and drove over the circle, I think you would have a fail for that.
I'm wondering what others think as the driver of the van that did a right angle turn and nearly hit me beeped me.
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Cailleach1 · 13/03/2017 13:16
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