Who has right of way on a mini round-about if there's a car waiting at every entrance?
Survival of the fitness?
Person with the heaviest right foot?
Person in the Chelsea tractor?
If they are all blocked then it doesnt really matter!
The Volvo
if there is space you go...
I drove city bendy busses for years, very very rarely would I actually stop at a round about, we were taught -
Expect to go but be prepared to stop
I'm looking for the gap 50ft before I even get to the roundabout, if you have had to stop and wait you have made an arse of it
as always the one to your right if no one is moving then pull out as long as you dont get hit by the guy on your right then you have right of way
Or just do what all the idiots do and don't look.
I've had people try to crash into me twice this weekend on the same mini roundabout, and one of them was a bus.
In the rare event that you all arrive at the same time who ever shows intitiative goes first, it depends on where everyone is going as if your all
turning left you can all go at once.
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Originally posted by BenB
Who has right of way on a mini round-about if there's a car waiting at every entrance?
Isn't a mini the same as a big one?
Iwas under the understanding that you should never enter any junction, or roundabout unless you're exit was clear?
give way to the car on the roundabout, approaching from the right. if nobody's actually on the roundabout, whoever gets on it first has right of
way.
there's one i cross regularly but 3 roads and usually everyone wants to go 2 exits. i go first
large ones, you drive around and can do full laps
mini one is just to aid the flow of traffic and "can" be driven over, often its the only physical way around it anyway, and you arent
supposed to do a full U turn on it, beleive its advised against in the highway code.
[Edited on 7/2/11 by tony-devon]
I have the right of way so please move over and let me thru as the brakes on my bus aren't for stoppies....
Excellent, so it's whoever's on the roundabout already has right of way over the cars trying to enter the roundabout. Full speed ahead it is
then 
Yeah, traffic on the roundabout has priority over traffic entering the roundabout. The general rule is give way to your right so if you and the car to your right are both first in the queue, they go first.
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Originally posted by tony-devon
large ones, you drive around and can do full laps
mini one is just to aid the flow of traffic and "can" be driven over, often its the only physical way around it anyway, and you arent supposed to do a full U turn on it, beleive its advised against in the highway code.
[Edited on 7/2/11 by tony-devon]
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Originally posted by BenB
Excellent, so it's whoever's on the roundabout already has right of way over the cars trying to enter the roundabout. Full speed ahead it is then
There's one near me that is nearly to tight not to cut so everyone cut's it.
and there are no visability so you have to peep and creep, to get out,
once a month someone thinks they see a gap and gets T-boned by someone cutting the roundabout,
or last week someone cut it that hard turning right they head-on'd a car coming from the right 15 foot before that car got to the roundabout!
and one of the exits is from a bus station!
genius
Going over a mini round about on a driving test is a major fault and thus an instant fail so in theory it's illegal to do so unless you have too. That said alot of people drive over them when they'd have no problem driving around them.
IMHO they should be painted red and white as should the surrounding (and lowered) curbs and treated more as chicanes than roundabouts
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Originally posted by nick205
IMHO they should be painted red and white as should the surrounding (and lowered) curbs and treated more as chicanes than roundabouts
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Originally posted by speedyxjs
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Originally posted by BenB
Excellent, so it's whoever's on the roundabout already has right of way over the cars trying to enter the roundabout. Full speed ahead it is then
Dont tell me you have been waiting at the junction of a mini roundabout waiting for replys on this thread before you decide when to go?!?!?!?
Doesn't really work!
I try not to slow down for them it's a sign of weakness, just look straight ahead and plough on.
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Originally posted by tony-devon
large ones, you drive around and can do full laps
mini one is just to aid the flow of traffic and "can" be driven over, often its the only physical way around it anyway, and you arent supposed to do a full U turn on it, beleive its advised against in the highway code.
[Edited on 7/2/11 by tony-devon]
You give way to the person to your right, but I only give it for a few seconds, especially when I can get a quick start