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.

Anyone fancy a go on this roundabout? (I did recently).

You can see an aerial view at link below: www.google.com/maps/place/The+Plough+Roundabout,+Hemel+Hempstead,+Hertfordshire,+UK/@51.746202,-0.4730937,113m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m2!3m1!1s0x4876415fdaf1dd49:0x4ae88def6f8a1393

I don't drive and even I know you are right.

CrohnicallyPissedOff is correct. It depends on the position of the 2 exits - you wouldn't signal right at all if one was to the left and one straight ahead (unless you were going all the way round like a U turn) just signal left after passing the first exit.

DadDadDad- I've been on that roundabout and it's actually even crazier than it looks because if you're coming from the bottom (as on that pic) and heading to the motorway, you actually go round anti clockwise, by going round each mini-roundabout clockwise!

NEVER AGAIN!!!

Sorry - didnt see that you'd been on it- so you know!

The Plough 'roundabout' is actually just a series of mini roundabouts so works brilliantly if you stop thinking of it as one large one.

Actually, Purple, I didn't know. When I approached it, I actually wanted at that point to go back the way I'd come and went all the way round, when thinking about your comment I could have looped round one or two mini-roundabouts. It's just sensory overload for me when you're not familiar with it and I rather hesitantly went round it!

That roundabout has left me very confused.

Op you are right.

OP, have you shown your DP the Highway Code, and has he acknowledged that he was wrong?

Op you're right.

yanbu you are right!

OP are you from the West Midlands by any chance?

I'm not bad on indicating but I'm really unsure on the lanes. Say if it's a classic 4 branch roundabout with turnings at 12,3.6 and 9 o'clock. Two lanes leading into it. Which lane do you go in if going straight ahead? If I go in the left lane I worry someone'll come up on the right who's also going straight on or if I go in the right what again if someone goes in the left lane but then wants to go straight on?

If I was going straight ahead I would be in the left lane. The exception is locally there is a roundabout that actually has 2 turn offs before 12 O' o' clock so the road is marked to make the right hand lane straight on.
I was taught anything from 12 o clock back was left anything beyond 12 was right hand lane.

It's awful as a pedestrian when people don't indicate and expect you to know what they are doing.

You are correct, OP.

If the roundabout has lanes for straight on/left/right, you stay in lane, and need not indicate when you come in, but should indicate as you leave, because it helps.

If there is no sign to indicate where you should be to go straight on, you should be in the left lane, but honestly, it is quite rare and people can be a pain.

What annoys me the most is that where I live, there is a roundabout with five exits, and every single person signal left to come off before passing our little turn. They almost always intend to come off at the next turn, so you can't trust their indicator, and it's really irritating.

ChronicallyPissedOff is right. If going left (first exit) indicate left. If going right (all the way round on a roundabout with four exits, including your own approach), indicate right, then left as you approach your exit. If taking the second exit, don't indicate, but indicate left as you approach your exit. I can imagine your dp has annoyed a few folks on roundabouts with his actions.

And women drivers are the butt of the majority of the piss taking
FFS! Of course he's wrong.
I hate non or wrong indicators they're all arseholes.

Urgh, that picture of the plough roundabout has set my trypophobia right off.
Youmakemydreams I was taught the same. OP, to echo everyone else, you are right.

You are both wrong, although he's worst than you. If the second exit is straight on (as it often is) you don't indicate at all and then indicate left after you've passed the first exit. You indicate right if you are going right and then indicate left as you come to your exit.

It isn't actually wrong to indicate right, though. It's just unnecessary. They teach you not to do it simply because it's one more thing to do.

However, on some roundabouts, it is good defensive driving to indicate even when you are intending to go straight on. Where I am, most people who are not indicating come off at the turn before mine, and we're all in the same lane, because the right-hand lane is dedicated for people turning off on the much bigger exit two over.

Since I am turning off on a small exit that is 'straight ahead', I follow what the lane marking say, and I also sign right until I am past the exit where most people turn off, because I know if I don't sign at all, most people will assume I am turning and will come out into my path. Then I sign left and come off, and it's fine.

I remember being in the car on the way to a holiday with my parents when a "discussion" about this exact thing descended into a screaming row and then them not speaking!

It was my mum who was your OH and my dad who was you in their argument. Mum was even more bloody stroppy when my dad bought a copy of the highway code to show her she was wrong and that she should going on about it :o

YANBU

she should STOP going on about it

surely its irrelevant - you can tell where people are going by the direction of the car and wheels, so indicators are useless

Ahh clearly Carol drives an Audi!