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Car Incident. Need advice

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    #302
    Markcheese
    Registered Users Posts: 8,428 ✭✭✭Markcheese


    TheChizler wrote:
    That's a good point, what would most posters do in the event of a 6 exit roundabout with no markings? Where there are 3 exits up to and including 12 o'clock? Left or right lane for going straight on?


    Unless otherwise signed or marked 1st exit is left and second straight on everything after is right turn .. that gets awkward when first exit is a dual carriageway and theres f-all markings is that just exit 1 or exits 1 and 2

    Slava ukraini 🇺🇦



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    #303
    ChickCave
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭ChickCave


    Nody wrote: »
    Well for starters your insurance for the accident for any claims on your car is null and void basically; you broke the law and policy so you will get zero from your own insurance for that accident

    I don't think this is true. I heard an expert discuss this topic on the radio not too long ago and they said that although a learner should be accompanied that most people who have accidents are doing things they shouldn't do - that's why they have to claim in the first place. Unless it's specifically stated in you policy that they won't pay out if you are unaccompanied then it's no different than breaking any other rule. That's my understanding amyway


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    #304
    MadDog76
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,162 ✭✭✭MadDog76


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Your talking about the walkinstown roundabout here. Combat sport at its best, survival of the bravest.
    TheChizler wrote: »
    Wow, a six exit three lane concrentric ring roundabout with three lanes on each entrance and zero arrows. Is this sponsored by body repair shops?

    The Walkinstown roundabout was the first roundabout I tackled when I started driving, been behind the wheel 3/4 days and headed up to see what all the fuss was about ......... it was definitely a sink or swim experience!!

    There are really only two types of drivers ........ those who have used, and survived, the Walkinstown roundabout ......... and those who haven't. :cool:


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    #305
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,738 ✭✭✭degsie


    Roundabouts? Who needs em?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akWiBM72hm4


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    #306
    FortySeven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,296 ✭✭✭FortySeven


    cruizer101 wrote: »
    I hate this system, on a big roundabout how do I know what f**kin o'clock an exit is at. To me the left lane first or second exit makes far more sense.

    In this case there was definitely lack of awareness on both drivers parts wither should have been able to avoid crash

    They're called signs. They are great big green things at the side of the road. You're supposed to look at them and then you know where the exits are.
    I cannot believe that you are being serious?


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    #307
    Stheno
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    TheChizler wrote: »
    Wow, a six exit three lane concrentric ring roundabout with three lanes on each entrance and zero arrows. Is this sponsored by body repair shops?

    Try the one at the malahide road/ n1 that leads to pavilions. Five exits goes from three lanes to two repeatedly and coming from the north three exits before twelve o'clock

    Allegedly it has more accidents than any other


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    #308
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    Just got this on FB. Might help some.

    Still applies if the first exit doesn't exist....

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    #309
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users Posts: 6,893 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Great if there are 2 lanes on all exits , but I know of 3 roundabouts near Waterford City where you are directed to be in the right-hand lane for 2nd exit , but in each case the 2nd exit only has one lane .

    Causes near crashes every day , because drivers are in both lanes for taking 2nd exit .


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    #310
    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,738 ✭✭✭degsie


    allthedoyles wrote: »
    Great if there are 2 lanes on all exits , but I know of 3 roundabouts near Waterford City where you are directed to be in the right-hand lane for 2nd exit , but in each case the 2nd exit only has one lane .

    Causes near crashes every day , because drivers are in both lanes for taking 2nd exit .

    You aren't getting it. It all depends on where the 2nd exit is in terms of a clock face. More than 12 o'clock = right lane. Simples.


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    #311
    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,410 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    degsie wrote: »
    You aren't getting it. It all depends on where the 2nd exit is in terms of a clock face. More than 12 o'clock = right lane. Simples.
    Spanner in the works: what if there's no exit before 12?


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    #312
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,940 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Would it kill councils here to put in LEFT LANE MUST TURN LEFT signs???

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #313
    [Deleted User]
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    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Would it kill councils here to put in LEFT LANE MUST TURN LEFT signs???

    Would it kill drivers to learn the rules of the road and actually learn how to use Roundabouts correctly?


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    #314
    _Kaiser_
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    TheChizler wrote: »
    Spanner in the works: what if there's no exit before 12?

    As in the scenario described by the OP you mean?

    No spanner at all.. same rule applies - any exit after 12 o'clock = right lane.


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    #315
    TheChizler
    Registered Users Posts: 9,410 ✭✭✭TheChizler


    _Kaiser_ wrote: »
    As in the scenario described by the OP you mean?

    No spanner at all.. same rule applies - any exit after 12 o'clock = right lane.
    Not quite. I know a couple of roundabouts with two lanes on the entrance and a number of exits but none before 12 o'clock. If the right-hand lane for beyond 12 was an absolute rule then the left lane would go unused in this situation.

    I also know a couple where there's two lanes on the entrance, a single lane exit at 9 o'clock, and a two lane exit at 3 o'clock. Clearly the intent here is to use both the left and right lane to exit at 3.


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    #316
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    MadDog76 wrote: »
    The Walkinstown roundabout was the first roundabout I tackled when I started driving, been behind the wheel 3/4 days and headed up to see what all the fuss was about ......... it was definitely a sink or swim experience!!

    There are really only two types of drivers ........ those who have used, and survived, the Walkinstown roundabout ......... and those who haven't. :cool:

    Wow, this thread is still going! I just laughed to myself when I saw this post because I've noted that myself and yourself have a similar opinion on this incident. You'll never guess where I'm from and learned to drive :D


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    #317
    matt-dublin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,468 ✭✭✭matt-dublin


    TheChizler wrote: »
    Spanner in the works: what if there's no exit before 12?

    It wouldn't be a two lane roundabout or there would only be one exit off it of which your would still be expected to take the right lane.

    Roundabouts like that are usually built with the expectation of more exits to be built.


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    #318
    MadDog76
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    theteal wrote: »
    Wow, this thread is still going! I just laughed to myself when I saw this post because I've noted that myself and yourself have a similar opinion on this incident. You'll never guess where I'm from and learned to drive :D

    You live in Essex ......... but you're from Walkinstown and learnt to drive there?


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    #319
    Coat22
    Registered Users Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭Coat22


    This thread should be made compulsory reading for everyone taking Exit 5 off the M3 every evening (presume mostly Ratoath/Dunshaughlin heads)....

    If you're taking the third exit you should enter the roundabout in the RIGHT lane. Yes that means than when you pass the second exit you'll have to change lanes but if you can't manage that then its time to leave the car in the train station and take the choo choo in


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    #320
    [Deleted User]
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    Coat22 wrote: »
    This thread should be made compulsory reading for everyone taking Exit 5 off the M3 every evening (presume mostly Ratoath/Dunshaughlin heads)....

    If you're taking the third exit you should enter the roundabout in the RIGHT lane. Yes that means than when you pass the second exit you'll have to change lanes but if you can't manage that then its time to leave the car in the train station and take the choo choo in

    On my way home from work every evening, I have to turn right - take the 3rd exit - on a roundabout. One thing that scares the bejazus out of me is when I correctly enter the roundabout from the right hand lane and a car enters from the left hand lane and wanders over into MY lane, even though we are both in correct lanes and they are going straight ahead. WTF do they do this???


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