Posted by
Totty
19 yrs ago
Can soneone please clarify.
2 lanes at a roundabout, van in left hand lane already on roundabout, i'm in right hand lane as wanting to go straightover.
Van decides he wants to go all the way round roundabout rather than take the left exit or continue straight and hits my rear. Whose fault?
I think, according to the Highway Code it's his as he should have been in the right hand lane if he wanted to do a 360.
Please clarify someone and thanks.
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Totty
19 yrs ago
Not to worry, have finally found the website i need and it states "approach in right hand lane if wanting to proceed right" and "if sade use right hand lane to proceed in going forward" so i'm ok.
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It also states: "When in a roundabout, look out for and show consideration to other vehicles crossing in front of you, especially those intending to leave by the next exit."
But like much of the Road Users' Code, it remains a mystery to most folks on the road.
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Totty
19 yrs ago
He wasn;t indicating and i had just pulled off and had bubs on the car, so not going fast, and he just carried on going round and not oulling off and not looking. Wasn't till i swerved and he connected that he actually looked.
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Hang Hau roundabout by any chance? Avoid that one at all costs. The past 3 or 4 months the most dangerous habit has crept in, because the left hand lane (to turn left from) has a queue most people now go down the right hand lane and then turn left! That's right, it only works if the car on the left lane is turning left, if the leftie wants to go straight on it's an accident.
Of course being HK, safety in numbers and if 1 person does it they all follow like sheep. It's anarchy in the mornings. Makes for a good tourist spectacle though.
You have my sympathies and regarding your original post yes, the other driver did the wrong thing.
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Definitely in the UK going straight ahead you keep in the left hand lane, to turn right you keep in the right hand lane, and to turn left you keep in the left hand lane ... I've just checked out the HK Road Users' Code and the actual wording for rules in HK for going forward are "Approach in the left-hand lane. Keep to that lane in the roundabout. If safe, you may approach in the right hand lane and keep in that lane in the roundabout." Personally, I wouldn't think it safe in HK to approach in the right hand lane to go straight ahead as you never can guess what the idiot on your left is going to do as you unfortunately found out.
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As far as I understood it in the UK if you are leaving via the first or second exit you will be travelling in the left lane any other exit i.e. 3rd, 4th, 5th you go in the right hand lane. This seems to work if people waiting to come on to the roundabout do not enter if there is a car already on the roundabout approaching them unfortunately this seems not to be the case over here esp. if you are a bus driver on the Hang Hau roundabout.
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