Yes...or people who are in the middle or left lane of a regular one and drive straight across the right-hand lane that you're in like you're not even there!!

 

 

You're allowed 2 wheels on those round abouts arent you?

Middle lane drivers also, when theres nothing in the left hand lane, but they still feel like forcing you to go aaaall the way round them.

 

You're allowed 2 wheels on those round abouts arent you?

Maybe but I'm talking about people who drive straight over the middle of them!

 

Some mini islands in our town are just painted on to the road and not raised mounds. There is at least one that is impossible to drive around unless you have a London cab. Sadly there are still some people who try to get round without touching the paint and end up bumping up the kerb or even reversing on the junction. I thought the idea of them was to keep traffic flowing by making people give way at busy junctions not pither about trying to steer round the things. Personally I use the easiest way around them if there are no other cars at the junction. Sorry, not with you on this one

 

There is a painted island near my place of work......and I regularly end up behind one particular driver who insists on going no where near the white circle......which slows me up.......and that angers me

 

or sump plugs that won't budge

 

What about those people who go the wrong way around a mini-roundabout??

GK

 

Yep, me again, if there are no other cars around I go the shortest route.
Like I said before at some islands at T junctions there is little or no choice but to go over or the "wrong" way.

 

If its raised, you are allowed two wheels on it. If its painted on, it is only there to indicate priorities and right of way and perfectly legal to drive over it. Its often more dangerous to try and avoid it then drive over it. Mini roundabouts are not designed for more than one car at a time, raised or not.

0/10 for the rant.

 

There is no 'wrong way' on a flat mini roundabout.

 

Sorry mate got to disagree on this one.

there are at least two of our drivers who have been prosicuted for going the 'wrong way' round a flat mini, as far as the police were concerned you have travelled the incorrect way round the roundabout.

seems stupid but it would seem to be the case

 

people in the left lane, not indicating, at a 2 lane roundabout with two exits, left at 90 degrees or right at 270 degrees, who then turn right.

I witnessed the most unbelievably shocking driving on Sunday, was following a women in a Honda something , the road has a sharp left then splits into 2 lanes, left for straight on and right for right turning traffic.
She went left, I started to pull along side ready to go right, she drifted across towards me so I dropped back and let her turn right ahead of me. Slighty annoyed at this point. :tut:

After the right turn the road split again left for straight on and right for right, she goes right so I pull alongside ready to go straight on, then accelerate sharply to avoid a collision as she drift towards me again. A bit angry now. :rant:

I then look in my mirror to see her following me and not turning right.

Up ahead is a roundabout where I shall be turning right to go to Sainsbury, I check my mirrors and am amazed to see the Honda on my left driving in the wrong lane against the flow of traffic, fortunately for her there was no traffic. :wow:

She followed me into the car park, after finding a spot away from everyone else , I wandered over to her car and in an incredulous voice asked "what are you doing?", she apologised but her husband/partner started to have a go at me shouting "haven't you ever made a mistake!". I advised him to leave it alone and advised the women that she was going to have an accident if she kept driving like that.

 

From the highway code, their capital letters not mine

188
Mini-roundabouts. Approach these in the same way as normal roundabouts. All vehicles MUST pass round the central markings except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so. Remember, there is less space to manoeuvre and less time to signal. Avoid making U-turns at mini-roundabouts. Beware of others doing this.

 

Anything but a pushbike is physically incapable of driving round a mini roundabout

I was told in no uncertain terms by my driving instructor that they are for reference only. That was quite a while ago though :lol:

 

Especially an Alfa with the turning circle of the Exxon Valdez. :lol:

What does annoy me is people on a large painted mini roundabout who turning right across your nose but cut the rounabout so much that its between you and them, think that makes sense.

I would normally use the opportunity whilst they should be driving forwards before turning right, to move myself to go straight across they should then pass behind me as I will have cleared the roundabout, but no they are there in front of you with the roundabout on their left.

 

I hate those who drivers fast in lane.

 

What about those who signal right at a roundabout, then go straight on? (apparently because they're not going left, they have to signal right?)
hmmm

 

why?

 

Because they're idiots.

 

I won't risk grounding on speed bumps or mini so called roundabouts

 

Oh dear. And there was I thinking that it was just the doings of a worky who'd got fed up and drew a circle - a kind of 'Round to it' doodle but with a paint brush.
I've never taken notice of them.
Not much worried about how anybody drives as long as they stay safe.

 

Oh and those roundabouts annoy me too. Down here in sunny Bedfordshire its either mount the roundabout with the driver's half of your car, or put the passenger half of the car through the pot-holes..

 

With The Gta I've had to do a three point turn on a mini roundabout to get all the way round twice before.

My personal annoyance in this vain is people turning right from the main road at a t-junction and cutting the corner. Especially when you're approaching the junction to turn right onto the main road and they nearly take the nose off your car with the side of theirs.

 

yep

my pet hate

 

People who go to the gym and tell you about how they go to the gym.

 

I go to the gym.

 

I'm thinking of going to the gym, then telling everyone about it, just to annoy Roswell.

It'll take a fair amount of time and money, but I reckon it'll be worth it. :lol:

 

Just answered a really old post, oops

 

Getting home from doing a big shop and remembering the things you forgot.

 

Some idiot beeped at me the other day because he was trying to overtake me and move into my lane on a traffic light roundabout ! But surprisingly I didn't because I wanted to creep past the yellow , YOUR FAULT FOR BEING IN THE WRONG LANE IN THE FIRST PLACE YOU IDIOT

 

Armchair football fans.

 

Now now:tut:

:lol: