Arfcollins
Soft southerner.
- Location
- Fareham
The motorcyclist shouldn't be thinking of leaving a roundabout with a vehicle in the lane immediately left of him. I wouldn't try that in a car never mind on a bike. He should already have moved into the left lane prior to indicating for the exit. He creates his own hazard.Agree to disagree?
Your own link says that you're wrong.
Your signal is inappropriate and not the right course of action. You are confusing other road users and, as the motorcyclist explains above, potentially being hazardous.
Please excuse my lack of humility. I will try to do better.Unfortunately, there's too many people that cannot allow themselves to be corrected these days.
You are suggesting that indicating right in the circumstances I describe is forbidden which it clearly isn't. By the way, you have already stated that interpreting the Highway Code is open to opinion, when you said I need to decide whether a 220 degree exit is straight on or turning right.This isn't a matter of opinion, it's a matter of you deciding to carry on doing something despite it being the wrong thing to do.
You are assuming in that case that they are going straight on, and therefore you can also go straight on using the right hand lane. Is that what you think you might do in that circumstance?is really no different to hanging back while you work out what someone is doing who doesn't indicate
Except why would you hang back? There's no indication that the driver to your left intends to move into the right lane or continue around the roundabout.
Going back to my post, do you think that there is any value, as an entering vehicle, to see a car indicating right as it approaches your exit, showing that pulling out in front of it would be foolish because that driver is showing you that he is continuing on the roundabout?