To think that people don’t use this mini roundabout correctly? (Diagram and picture)

Yes prioritiy is probably the better word to describe it. And as Keir Twaddle says, a little common sense and taking the lead out of your right foot means everyone gets through the roundabout in a fair and quick fashion.

Thing is, people aren’t being asked to slam the brakes on. Just lift their foot off the accelerator. That’s all it takes.

What’s particularly important to note is how certain the ‘it’s fine to hurtle through without a pause’ drivers are, that everyone else is an idiot that doesn’t belong on the road. It’s a bad attitude.

Roads work better when people accommodate each other. They don’t work as well when people game the system to gain every 10sec advantage.

I was harassed by a car in a specific situation- can’t remember the exact details, but it involved risky overtaking. By the time we reached the next junction he’d lost all the distance he’d gained and I sailed past in the next lane. He ended up immediately behind me on the final stretch. He’d risked several of us with a risky manoeuvre for a very short lived advantage.

Mutual accommodation works better.

No actually that is exactly how it should work. As I previously said at 20mph you cover 100m in under 11 seconds. So 25m (6 car lengths) in approx 2.5 seconds. Now I'd suggest if the cars approaching from the OP's right are doing 20mph at the junction they are going too fast and giving insufficient time to safely use that roundabout. Six car lengths should be sufficient space to join the flow of traffic going any direction.

If that is how you are interpreting roundabouts along with your lack of knowledge previously in the thread about entry and exit to a roundabout being junctions, I suggest it is you that is incorrect I'm afraid.

I think some posters are overlooking the fact that a roundabout is supposed to ease the flow of traffic; it’s not meant to be like a t-junction, with one queue of traffic essentially waiting for a gap in a main stream of traffic.

You are supposed to slow down when you approach a roundabout, even if it’s clear. You need to check before entering.

What OP seems to be saying is that people routinely don’t check on this particular roundabout. They don’t slow down at all. That’s dangerous.

Yes, you have to give way to the right, but the assumption is that you are giving way to traffic moving at roundabout speed, not at 60mph. In the ideal scenario, this slowing down will allow the odd break in the traffic big enough for people from OP’s route to join the roundabout too. Hence the roundabout working to ease flow of traffic.

It’s about seeing the bigger picture, I guess. Yes, you can go screeching through a roundabout barely braking, safe in the knowledge that it’s your right of way. Or you could approach the roundabout with caution, and be the vehicle that finally gives enough breathing space for the car from the minor route to enter the roundabout.

It must be frustrating to have to try to break into a race track every day.

The mini-roundabout will have replaced a T-junction to give the joining road users more chance to pull out, but to still give the main road some priority and keep the main road moving.

If it is a T-junction, a driver from the joining road has to wait until there is a break in the traffic to pull out onto the main road.

If it is a mini roundabaout, they can pull out both when there is a break in the traffic, and also when a car coming from the left is indicating right as it will have priority over traffic coming from the right, and those cars will slow/stop.

So OP, those are the two times when you can safely enter the mini-roundabout without being beeped - when there;s a break in traffic to your right, or when a car from your left enters the mini-roundabout indicating right and the car from the right stops for it.

And of course the mini-roundabout makes it many times easier for those turning right from the joining road.

But why would it not slow down to a reasonable speed on approach so that I don’t need to give way, as we can both cross the roundabout at our own reasonable speeds?
This is a nonsense from OP.
It's not needing to give way, she has to give way to the right if not already on roundabout.

You don't need to keep repeating, I have not once referred to vehicles already on the roundabout, I'm referring to OP stating that cars to her right should be allowing her out/slowing to allow her to pull out, clearly if she's already in the roundabout she has right of way.

This is actually quite an interesting site to play around and see how traffic should behave. I adjusted the speed to 30kmh and traffic volume to 1000 vehicles an hour. Although it is German and they are all on the wrong side of the road. It gives a good indication of how we should slow on the approach to the roundabout.

https://www.traffic-simulation.de/roundabout.html

Using your theory of remaining at the speed of the road. I can name around 6 roundabouts on our local bypass I could in theory enter at 60mph as could the driver joining at the 90 degree position. Would that give either of us sufficient time to view, anticipate and adjust our speed? Of course not!

As stated before, the entry to a roundabout is a junction. If you have not adjusted your speed correctly on approach to that junction to account for vehicles having joined in front of you, then you are in the wrong.

Don't believe me, go visit your local police station and ask to speak to a traffic officer.

@ATenShun
If the traffic coming from OPs right has checked those coming towards them are not continuing around then they have the right of way to continue on, if they do hit OP; she is at fault as she has pulled out into oncoming traffic without checking it is safe to do so. It would be the same if it was a T junction, OP would again be at fault, those on a main road are not obliged to slow for those coming from side roads, so both of OPs scenarios of it's like a T junction or roundabout, she would be found at fault.
OP is the dangerous driver.

I read the OP differently.
''Nine times out of 10 traffic coming from the right or the left doesn’t slow down''
She says that vehicles are beeping her as they haven't slowed down on approach. In which case they are in the wrong, and should they T-Bone her, could find themselves on a driving without due care charge.

Once she has entered the roundabout she has right of way, any vehicle approaching should have adjusted their speed on approach to account for that.

@ATenShun
My point is that OP thinks she's right all of the time and everybody should be allowing her out and giving way to her even from her right, not every lorry driver is good, hence why we need to be aware and alert at all time, not make assumptions on other road users, this woman is clearly an idiot and shouldn't be on the road.
This OP despite being told multiple times she is in the wrong still assumes her way is the right way.

Yes. That's how we all should be driving in every situation. As I stated earlier, my driving started on motorbikes. To stay safe we rode in the assumption that every other road user was out to kill us so made ourselves less vulnerable by increasing our visibility by road position and speed.

Also as I say in my previous post, if the OP has entered the roundabout ( gone beyond the give way markings), she has entered the roundabout and has priority over vehicles joining from any direction.

Are you saying that the approaching car should assume she may pull out and be able to adjust if she does?

Dear god. This is so bloody worrying that people like you, who absolutely will not be wrong (even though you are), are out and about on our roads.

Also remember that any vehicle actually on the roundabout has priority over anyone joining. That includes those coming from the right. If the OP has started her manouver and has entered the roundabout before the car from the right has reached the roundabout junction she has priority.

I have a similar roundabout near me and drivers like you are so bloody dangerous op. Just accept that you're wrong.

The driver of the 40 tonne lorry if he is any good is driving defensively. He knows that his extra height gives him vision beyond that of a car driver. With that in mind he slows down on the approach to the roundabout, to again assess the situation and allow others to see and react to him.

Look at distance travelled at 20mph. With a direct line of site a car will cover 100 metres in 11 seconds.

The stopping distance for a car in dry conditions at 20mph is 3 car lengths or 12 metres, which at 20mph takes only ONE SECOND. Now imagine a bicycle pulling out that junction to turn right, which doesn't have the acceleration of a car. Could you safely stop should he/she join the carriageway?

They should. But you can't control what other people do, you can just make sure that YOU do the right thing. Which is give way to the right. Always.

Read all the thread and I'm left wondering "What's your flaming hurry, OP? Why do you have to dash out in front of cars approaching on your right?"

That's what you take from that post? Jeez! Everything said in that post is correct, so what if they referred to the piece of paper slightly different to how you do.