Drivers unable to see roundabout shocker!

[tyred]

Making thing clearly visible is obviously desirable and makes life easy for everyone but do we now try too hard and stop people from actually watching the road properly?

It's just something I was pondering today when driving and I came up behind a schoolbus which had stopped to let kids off. I could clearly the large 53 seater coach in front of me. It had brake lights to tell me it was slowing down to stop. I have enough intelligence not to crash into it and be prepared for the possibility of a stray child running into the road. So why the need to cover it in flashing amber lights? Are there really people so dozy that they can't spot and avoid hitting a stationary bus in broad daylight unless it is covered in flashing lights?

 

[ufkacbln]

The "new road" argument makes me laugh

We recently drove to North Wales from the South Coast with s couple of detours


They were ALL new roads that we didn't know

.....and we survived, didn't trash a single roundabout, or find any obstacle that caused an issue

 

[MontyVeda]

Making thing clearly visible is obviously desirable and makes life easy for everyone but do we now try too hard and stop people from actually watching the road properly?

It's just something I was pondering today when driving and I came up behind a schoolbus which had stopped to let kids off. I could clearly the large 53 seater coach in front of me. It had brake lights to tell me it was slowing down to stop. I have enough intelligence not to crash into it and be prepared for the possibility of a stray child running into the road. So why the need to cover it in flashing amber lights? Are there really people so dozy that they can't spot and avoid hitting a stationary bus in broad daylight unless it is covered in flashing lights?

yes.

I think IQ drops when someone owns a car. Whilst the majority can anticipate and safely navigate things like roundabouts... a small handful can't and their fellow motorists come out in droves to blame the roundabout.

 

[Svendo]

This was posted by a bus driver I know on FB

 

[mustang1]

Idk if op posted the correct picture. I can only see a race track.

 

[MontyVeda]

Idk if op posted the correct picture. I can only see a race track.

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[mustang1]

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It looks like a chicane on a racetrack, designed to slow down the racing drivers.

 

[Spinney]

Not knowing this road my comments my be irrelevant in this case but:

Near my place we have a M2/A2 motorway, it is perfectly possible to drive 400+ miles from the centre of France of Germany (or 60 miles from Dover or Ashford) without seeing a single set of traffic lights

Yet at one point on the road, on the first sharp corner in 400 miles there is a set of traffic lights !
Obviously lots of people blast through them, not expecting traffic lights on has been a motorway for the last 6 hours

They have been there for years, the locals call it 'crash corner' for some reason, I wonder why ?

Likewise, on the A30 at Oakhampton for about 3 years there was a big roundabout, again the first roundabout on the road in 200+ miles, it caused lots of accidents, thankfully they removed it.

I hear what your're saying, but in this case...
The left arrow shows the roundabout in the OP

As the road has only just opened, I'm not sure if the roads google shows in the oval are correct. But in any case drivers coming off the motorway have just had to negotiate the roundabout marked by the right hand arrow, and possibly also a traffic light junction within the oval (or some other feature) - I've driven past it all on the M6, but not actually left the motorway at that junction since the major works started.

So the one they are complaining about isn't the first one they've encountered after X miles of motorway.

 

[MontyVeda]

It looks like a chicane on a racetrack, designed to slow down the racing drivers.

looks like a roundabout to me... possibly designed in such a way as to calm the traffic as well as provide access to the A6

 

[MontyVeda]

[QUOTE 4559821, member: 9609"]i wonder how many will mistakenly filter down the left lane then try to get back over the kerb thing back onto the roundabout.[/QUOTE]
Hmmm..... bit of an odd feature that lane/layby. (artist's impression)

...maybe it's for the roadside bacon butty van.

 

[nickyboy]

Hmmm..... bit of an odd feature that lane/layby. (artist's impression)
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...maybe it's for the roadside bacon butty van.

Not really. By taking the left lane heading towards Heysham you avoid having to give way at the roundabout. The other lanes are more for turning right onto the A6 but there is still an exit towards Heysham in case you picked the wrong lane