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.

@ "Turning circles"

You are definitely right btw

Drivers who don't indicate left before leaving the turning circle seriously annoy me and are pretty selfish in the way they just expect all other drivers to be stationery whilst waiting for the selfish driver because they have no idea when he plans to leave the circle!

You are definitely right, your DH's way completely defies any logic or common sense. Come the day I am in charge he will be 'disposed of' along with anyone else who does this and those who feel that indicators are an optional extra.

You're right. He's wrong.

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

Do you apply that to all driving then? I suggest you have some driving lessons.

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

Carol, I really hope you're a non driver?

You are right. D us a nob and a total arrogant teat for refusing to listen to you or consider he might be wrong. Agree totally with NCIS.

Yikes! I always thought people doing what your DH does were lazy...now i realise some of them are that stupid that they think it is what they are supposed to do. I often have to pull on to a road just down from a busy roundabout. People not indicating off mean i have yo assume any of them might come my way, making it very tricky for me to pull on

Lots of people here (North Yorks) indicate left too soon on roundabouts - for example if going right they will indicate left as they start to pass the straight on exit - it looks as if they are coming off a junction before they actually are - drives me nuts - dangerous too as easy to pull out in front of them

You are correct BTW

DadDadDa is the Plough also nicknamed "The Magic Roundabout"? Or is that another one in Herts?

OP, you are right. This is one of the things that drives me mad. I'll often find myself at a roundabout waiting to go, thinking that a person is turning right BECAUSE THEY ARE INDICATING RIGHT when in fact they are going left - they just haven't switched their indicators as they go round the roundabout.

The Magic Roundabout is in Swindon. I've done the same thing, taking the 'Oxford' exit on the sign by going the whole way round clockwise. I was a couple of miles down the road when I thought, Oh, wait....

I learnt to drive in Swindon and now live in Milton Keynes. I love roundabouts! Drivers do my head in though. Most of the large ones here have painted lanes, I.e get in the right approach lane, and follow it until it takes you to the right exit, but people still get it wrong.

The Plough is also nicknamed the Magic Roundabout. Has been for years. I lived in area for over 20 years and never called it the Plough.

There are several roundabouts in the UK known as Magic Roundabouts. I think the one in Swindon is the only one officially named that. It now seems to have become a descriptive name for this type of roundabout.

Roundabouts are easy. Always amazes me when people manage to cock them up so badly. Have you shown the Highway Code rule to him yet, OP? Is he squirming? Because he should. He's a numpty .

I purposely avoid the magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead. I will go the longer way around, just to avoid it.

Oh, it's quite easy when you know how, MyFairyKing. It helps to realise that 'roundabout' is a misnomer. It's actually a series of mini roundabouts, grouped together in a shape that happens to be circular. The official name is something like 'ring junction'. Not a roundabout at all.

When you've got your head around that it suddenly gets a lot clearer. You can go round the big junction in either direction, but you have to go left round the 'true' roundabouts, and follow the usual rules of giving way to the right.

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

Thats the funniest post I've read in ages! Carol are you Majesticwhines mother?

It's a mystery to me why they bother with the highway code at all. You are in a car and you know what you're going to do so surely that's enough, everyone else should just stay far enough away from you and wait long enough that they can work out what you're doing and job done.

I remember getting a minor fault on my first driving test for not indicating as I left the (very tiny mini) roundabout, so yes, you are right, you must indicate left as you are leaving the roundabout.

Your husband is wrong, of course you indicate left as soon as you pass the exit before the one you intend to take - otherwise how are people waiting to get onto the roundabout supposed to know they can go?

Not signalling properly is only marginally less worse than people who don't understand the term "merge in turn" in my book.

climbs down from soap box

I remember learning that on a mini roundabout if there were no other cars about you could just drive over it. Now that doesn't appear to be the case according to the HC. Only lorries can do that. When ever did that change. Does anyone ever re-read the HC after passing their test to check for changes??

I have a query.

Standard round about with 4 exits.
I approach it on a 2 lane part and want to go straight on (2nd exit). This exit has only one lane.

I thought it was OK to get on the round about from the left hand lane (of the 2 lane part), not indicate, carry on past the 1st exit, then indicate and take the 2nd exit.

I have been beeped at many times for doing this. It seems that most people take the right hand lane on the approach, indicate right and then take the 2nd exit.

The lay out of the roundabout can lead you to think that the first exit is sort of the dominant route, and it's the one into town rather than the one to the supermarket, so I think people think if I'm in the left hand lane I should take the first exit.

I think I've attached a file showing what I mean. I approach from the A1307 on the right.

Ooooh that's a tough one. Are there any painted markings on the approach to tell you what to do?

Technically even though you are going straight on I guess you are supposed to signal right until you pass the first exit, then signal left.

As for using the right hand lane on approach - the way I see it there's no way someone is going to use the right hand lane for the first exit, so what's wrong with using the left lane to go for the second? A roundabout I use on the way home has 6 exits (including the one you are entering on), and I use the left hand lane to use the "middle exit" (number 3).

Bugger that should be "As for using the LEFT lane on approach", stupid brain.

bonkers you are correct not bonkers!

Straight on can be from either lane unless lane markings indicate otherwise.

Do NOT indicate right even if in right hand lane.

Indicate left before the second exit in the usual way.

by second exit i meant the straight ahead exit

Yes, I might go in the right hand lane, but I rarely choose to do that at roundabouts as they are often full of speedsters itching to get on their way.

It's the indicating right which annoys me. I've had people beep at me for still being in the left hand lane when they've approached from the right hand lane, expecting me to take the first exit, but find I'm still there and wanting to take the same (2nd) exit as them - like I'm undercutting them.

It's happened so many times that I honestly think I'm doing it wrong.
I may change supermarkets.

No, there are no special road markings.