Help: Road Rage

[Ididntdoit]

GRRRRR do you know what really grills my bacon? When people go in the left-hand lane to go right round a roundabout. Can someone tell me why people do this?!?!?!?! It's not difficult. If you're turning left, then go in the left-hand lane and if you're going right go in the right-hand lane. I always nearly see crashes happen because of this. MAKES ME SO ANGRY GRRRRR RAWR. Am I suffering from a case of road rage or is it acceptable to feel this way? Someone please help...

[woofgang]

road rage.....

[stuey]

That only happens because you all drive on the wrong side of the road:)

[andy-hughes]

Some of the larger city roundabouts have started marking left lanes for right turns.

This unfortunately encourages people to do the same, even if the roundabout is smaller and not marked out with left lanes for right turns.

I passed my Test forty-three years ago, so the idea of left lane for right turns is utterly alien to me - but for more modern dirvers, less so.

[Baldric]

Calm Down Dear,
Big Breaths now,
that's it!
;-)

[Old_Geezer]

It is obvious. They do it because they are poor drivers who can not cope with the normal behaviour on a roundabout.

Road rage is understandable in certain circumstances, we are all only human, but I dare not go as far as saying it is acceptable as that is tacit approval, and we should all try to avoid such loss of control as far as we can.

[Old_Geezer]

"Some people do not understand the highway code..."
Or, indeed, basic common sense (which is not so very common).

[MantaRay]

Anybody with a hint of imagination should not presume that the car on the left hand lane WILL be taking the next exit...just leave a bit more gap between you and the car in front to allow for this. Any driver finding they are constantly shouting at or cursing other drivers is not necessarily wrong but it means they have put themself into "parent" or "child" mode and are not learning to read the road situations.

[MantaRay]

...in other words "Ididntdoit" learn from what you see and I'm sure you will be rewarded one day by avoiding that accident that somebody else was just about to cause....if you see my point!

[boxtops]

I agree that the inside lane is the correct way to do it, but why should it cause crashes if someone stays in the left hand lane? nobody should ever assume that they know where the vehicle ahead is going, and if it's indicating correctly, where's the problem, who's crashing into it?

[AlwaysConfused]

I often feel like helping road management. I have a dream that we could have little lights that could indicate whether we plan to turn left or right. We could perhaps flick a little switch to let others know what our plans are. It would be amazing. I foresee that this rule would only happen during daylight hours, thought, excluding any foot passengers that need to cross roads at unsociable hours, say, between midnight and 5am. A kind of code to allow vehicles to stop, wait and go would be great too. Maybe green, amber and red, so that other vehicles or foot passengers can travel safely between the hours of 00:00 and 05:00. These people are destined to a short life, being run over by drivers whose rules are not applicable during the said hours. I suffer too!

[boxtops]

what a good idea, always - we'd be happy to pilot it down here, nobody has these gadgets in this corner of the country as yet - but then, they live here, they all know where they're going.... :-)

[TWR]

Take a look at Hemel Hemsted >>>> Swinton Wilts, that will confuse you Ididntdoit.

[ToraToraTora]

these are known in biking circles as "the roundabout cutters" - deaths too good for them! they think that if they just go around the outside until they find their exit they won't have to think too much. Incredibly dangerous especially to motorcyclists, fortunately we learn the spot the morons.

[djtdjt]

There should be cameras on roundabouts to catch these morons, fine them and ban them from the road.