From: Harry Bloomfield on
After serious thinking Tim wrote :
> This will get argued all ways but personally I think swapping lanes on
> roundabout like this *as* you're exiting is a bad idea because it easy to end
> up cutting someone up in your nearside blindspot.

So you make absolutely sure there is nothing in your blind spot before
moving to L1 - I can do it with perfect safety, what's the problem?
Equally if you go straight from L2 to your exit there could be a
vehicle in L1, but you would have much less time to react when cutting
straight across their bows.

Moving over to L1 reinforces your intentions to leave the roundabout,
avoids you being blocked out from your exit and helps prevent someone
pulling out from the road immediately prior to your intended exit,
blocking you from your exit. Passing closer to entering vehicles bows
also makes it easier for them to get out, you spend slightly less time
going past them.

>
> In this situation I prefer to exit in lane two and then move over to lane one
> *after* I've left the roundabout (assuming a two lane exit).

Try doing it the correct way, it is both safer and easier.

> The HC is condones both practices but I feel that exiting in lane two is
> safer.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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From: Harry Bloomfield on
Brimstone expressed precisely :
> Where one is going from r/about to an exit with two lanes that's fine, but
> what about when the road one is joining has only a single lane?

If an additional reason to already be in L1 prior to your exit, or make
damn sure there is nothing adjacent to you in L1 if you are out in L2.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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From: Harry Bloomfield on
Mr Pounder wrote :
> Sorry about that.
> The Rover came out of the roundabout to my left, he blew his horn at me as I
> drifted from lane two of the roundabout into lane 1 of my exit.

If you were already indicating and in adequate time for him to see your
indication, then he was in the wrong. Even if you were not signalling,
he took a gamble - I never enter a roundabout, while there is a vehicle
in L2 that could potentially want to cut across to the exit after mine.

So I would suggest he was entirely at fault.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
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From: Mr Pounder on

"Harry Bloomfield" <harry.m1byt(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
news:mn.64357da23d89025f.106911(a)NOSPAM.tiscali.co.uk...
> Mr Pounder wrote :
>> Sorry about that.
>> The Rover came out of the roundabout to my left, he blew his horn at me
>> as I drifted from lane two of the roundabout into lane 1 of my exit.
>
> If you were already indicating and in adequate time for him to see your
> indication, then he was in the wrong. Even if you were not signalling, he
> took a gamble - I never enter a roundabout, while there is a vehicle in L2
> that could potentially want to cut across to the exit after mine.
>
> So I would suggest he was entirely at fault.
>
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> Regards,
> Harry (M1BYT) (L)
> http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk


Thanks.
It is a mad roundabout, I always take it with care and indicate all of the
time.
The Rover did not give way to the right and for what it is worth he overtook
me then chopped me up by pulling straight in front of me. I did see him
coming out of the roundabout.
Young lad I think.
I've been on the road for 38 years, been to every inch of this county and
have and will take roundabouts in the same way.

Mr Pounder



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>


From: Harry Bloomfield on
on 12/02/2010, Mr Pounder supposed :
> I've been on the road for 38 years, been to every inch of this county and
> have and will take roundabouts in the same way.

Your example is just one of the reasons I get myself into L1 before the
exit - it gives them no chance to nip into the lane and cause you
problems.

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Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk