to think dp is wrong and I am right? - involves indicating round roundabouts

[HighwayDragon]

Right in these scenarios who is right?

Going round an island with 2 exits to take the second exit you indicate right until you have passed the first junction you indicate left, this is what I do, dp thinks you just continue indicate right even when exiting. This goes the same for 3rd, 4th, 5th etc you indicate right until you pass tbe junction before then left to indicate you're leaving the roundabout

When going straight on at a roundabout you don't indicate until you are past the last junction before yours you indicate left, so if there are 3 exits you start to indicate left after junction 1 to come off at junction 2, dp doesn't indicate at all.

Not exciting, but please prove me right. He is being a douche.

Of course you indicate left if you're taking that exit, not continue indicating right. Why on earth would he think otherwise? How long ago did he pass his test?

So if I'm right why do 99% of other drivers do it dps way?

Surely 99% don't?

Some do of course, some don;t indicate at all and some indicate right then when their indicator automatically turns off when they turned onto the roundabout they can;t be arsed to turn it back on again to indicate turning left (because it such a big effort...)

I don;t see many people indicating right when they're turning left off a roundabout.

You're right, he's wrong.

People who drive like that piss me off. DS2 is learning atm, it is so hard to teach him to reach the road when you have no effing clue where people are going because they either don't indicate or indicate incorrectly. If he fails his test because of a silly twat like that, I shall not be best pleased!

YANBU and are correct. I would suggest that your DH move to Massachusetts where they call roundabouts "rotaries" and driving on them is complete chaos. He would fit in well there.

He's a dangerous twat. Bad enough that his driving is likely to cause accidents, he also won't listen to you telling him he's wrong about it so that makes him a twat.

I don't think 99% of drivers get it wrong.
On the evidence of 16 years of long distance commuting, I'd split it roughly this way:

% gets it right: 15-20%
% psychic drivers (as in, 'but I know where I'm going') who don't indicate at all: 35%
% random finger flickers: 25%
% dogmatically gets it wrong because they think the way OP's DP thinks: 15%
% too pissed to care: the rest

Hope that not very scientific analysis is useful...

If he constantly argues about it why not just find the relevant bit in the highway code and show him it?

mrsmook there's a similar roundabout near me. 6 exits, multiple lanes with markings that indicate where you must turn off and where you may turn off (or could continue round, the lane splits). Unfortunately the road numbers in the lanes and the signage don't agree with each other, or with the lane markings. You have to have your wits about you and just assume that everyone's going to crash into you at every opportunity.

You are absolutely right. I clearly remember this being in the Highway Code book when I was learning to drive 30 years ago now.

People giving incorrect indications at roundabouts is one of my pet hates when I am driving.

You are right, your DH is wrong. As is my DH who would agree with your DH!

You are right. If you are taking the first exit you indicate left ; all others you indicate right until you have passed every exit you don't want and you v then indicate left.

Very few people do.

you indicate right until you pass tbe junction before then left to indicate you're leaving the roundabout

Exactly this.

Except it seems that the only people in the world who still know how to indicate on roundabouts, and actually do so, are all on this thread. No one else ever seems to know how it works.

Just to prove it's not all men who are idiots, I agree with you.

Your indicators are for the benefit of other drivers. If I'm sitting waiting to join a roundabout and you are coming towards me from my right, there's only one question I need the answer to: are you going across my path or turning into the road beside me?

If you are passing across and I need to wait, then the only unambiguous signal is your right indicator flashing. If you have no indicator flashing, I can probably guess that I need to give way especially if I've seen where you've come from. But drivers who don't indicate at all or have the right indicator on and then turn into my road are irritating because I've waited unnecessarily.

If you are turning into my road, then the only unambiguous signal is your left indicator. If you have this on, but then stay on the roundabout, then let's hope we don't have an accident as I start to pull out. Again, if I've seen that you are coming straight over the roundabout and you have not got a signal on at all, then I can work out that you are leaving at my road, but on a larger roundabout a left signal would be a lovely courtesy that would distinguish you from the bad drivers.

roundabouts seem to be a free for all these days. I hate using them because so many drivers haven't a clue about who to give way to.

By the way, I used "you" rhetorically: it's obvious that those of you on this thread don't need to be told these basic truths!

I was taught you dont indicate on approach at all if you're going straight over, just indicate left as you get there. indicate right only if the intended exit is right of straight over.

it seems a bit weird to indicate right if you're taking the second exit at 8/9 o clock?

I was behind someone who edged out onto a mini roundabout then just sat there waiting for...what? A written invitation? Roundabouts don't work if people stop on them!

I seem to live in an area heaving with roundabouts,
My god, what your husband does is so annoying. So many drovers don't indicate at all or continue indicating right when coming off.
It's stupid and can cause accidents.

@ BrianButterfield exactly my thoughts I even use the same words as you "what are you waiting for a fucking engraved invitation"? Drives me up the wall, a hesitant ,slow, roundabout snail who sometimes does an emergency
stop . I do not understand how people get so confused especially on mini roundabouts it is not as if it's the centre of Paris in the "rush hour".

My DM was driving me today, and I noticed, with some alarm, that she doesn't indicate AT ALL. She seems to think she is above all that nonsense. Thinks, surely people can see where she is going

I was taught you dont indicate on approach at all if you're going straight over, just indicate left as you get there. indicate right only if the intended exit is right of straight over

For my lorry licence I was taught this. If the intended junction is 'after 12 o' clock' on the roundabout circle, you should indicate right and then left as you pass the central white lane markings of the exit before the one you want.

If it's anything up to 12 o' clock then you don't signal on entry but you signal left as above at the exit before.

Mini roundabouts can be a pain though. There is one near us with three exits and there are often times when there are cars waiting to pull out at all three exits, all indicating right, and all waiting and giving way to the right waiting for the car to pull out, meaning nobody actually does IYSWIM.

The tiny roundabout means you would just have pulled out before bashing into the car on the next exit if they decided to pull out at the same time, so it makes everyone really hesitant.

Majestic Father does't indicate as he says it's no one else's business where he is going.

Fil says 'always remember, every other driver is a knob head'. Your dp is that knob head.