On 13/01/2020 11:52, fred wrote:
On a fairly open roundabout I can see a car approaching from a road on the right. Given that I will be on the roundabout first who has the right of way? Is the rule give way to traffic on the roundabout or give way to traffic on the right?
I see so many cases where because the driver entering the roundabout sees there is no traffic on his right he assumes he has right of way.


The requirement for vehicles entering a normal roundabout* is to comply
with the legal definition of give way:

'No vehicle is to cross the transverse line ... so as to be likely to
endanger any person, or to cause the driver of another vehicle to change
its speed or course in order to avoid an accident.'

* There are roundabouts where the traffic in the roundabout has to give
way to traffic entering. E.g. the A24 northbound has priority at the
B2209 roundabout.

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Colin Bignell