Roundabout collision - who is at fault? With diagram

Glad you and baby are OK, you must have had a fright.

Also, yes looks like blue car was wrong. They should only have entered the round about if they were turning left

Red car is at fault as they crossed lanes when the lane wasn’t clear. It doesn’t matter that the blue car was indicating as this wasn’t seen at the time of the crash. The blue car could have been going straight on and was in the correct lane to do this

As a newbie driver, I think red car's signal would have been confusing, and would probably have got a fault on a driving test if it had forced blue car to stop suddenly with a misleading signal (eg implying they were going to turn before they did).

This thread shows exactly why you have to presume every other driver is stupid.

(I am no angel, I too have been the stupid driver)

https://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/roundabouts.html

...because you're supposed to indicate left whenever you exit a roundabout? If you're going straight on, you don't indicate as you enter but you indicate left after you pass the exit before yours.

One of my pet peeves is people not signalling correctly when entering and exiting roundabouts and clearly you are one of those people 😬

Also you give way to cars already on the roundabout, I’d never pull out even if the red car was indicating right.

But if this were true it would mean cars pulling out of side roads immediately into the path of a car on the main road wouldn't be at fault? It'd be the one driving along the main road?

Unfortunately I think insurance companies might class it as 50:50 but honestly it's through their laziness/taking the 'easy option'. OP was both in the right and not at fault.

Blue car is more at fault but insurers will settle at 50:50.
Don't put any more emotional energy into it though. Insurers sorting out the stress is why we pay them.

I would say blue car at fault. If red car was already on roundabout and was in the inside lane and all marking show they can go straight ahead - then the blue at fault 100%

I meant to say what you said.

Blue entered a clear lane then changed lanes without checking his offside.

We're right, but also wrong in this case. The road layout/signage does allow straight on from the right lane. Edited mine to add that now.

Definitely blue.

No no. You give way to anything on the roundabout no matter what lane they are in

This. I have always been taught that left lane is for going left or straight on up to 2nd exit and right is for 3rd and beyond. OP, if you were going straight on you should have been in the left lane but blue car should have given you priority. So you could be equally responsible so be prepared for this.

Blue car to blame as they shouldn't have even entered the roundabout until the red car had passed them. When I learnt to drive I was taught you never enter the roundabout if the is something in your 3-6 area ( imagining roundabout as a clock face ).
And also to pay attention to road marking. Not all roundabouts use left for straight over and left , so you need to look at the markings, as straight over may be the right lane. Or like this roundabout both lanes can be straight over.
I hope you are okay OP this must have shaken you up.

Should have read all OP's posts before replying. I was just editing my post as you wrote this!

You can use both lanes to go around the roundabout there are road markings showing this

The road markings in this case say you can use the right lane if you’re going straight on - it’s in one of OP’s previous posts. So she was in the correct lane.

blue car is at fault but it will go 50/50. Insurance companies always seem to go 50/50 when there is even a slight possibility it could be these days.

The right lane entering the roundabout is for 3rd/4th exits off the roundabout.
The left lane entering the roundabout is for 1st/2nd exits off it unless signs say otherwise.

I'd say 50/50. Red car was in the wrong lane, they were going straight so should have been in the left lane. The right lane is for turning right unless the road markings say otherwise. Blue car should have given priority to the Red car.

Now I've seen that the right lane does allow going straight on I'll change that to Blue car at fault.

Eh?

Blue's lane was clear as he joined the RA. Red drives into blue from behind
after going too fast (unable to stop). The blame is on red.