The worst death ever.

[Drury]

Getting trapped in a traffic roundabout.

[orudge]

Heh, that might be fun to do over here, see how people react.

[planetmaker]

I found such situation last(?) year in Delft. Oh well. I felt free to choose the direction which I thought would bring me closer to where I actually wanted to go, which was only s tiny piece of road of ~20m length or so.

[61653]

I'm so glad there's no footage of my encounter with 'The Magic Roundabout' in Swindon a few years ago!

[Drury]

What the christ...

How does that even work?

[Dave]

Just imagine it as a circular road, with five roundabout junctions.

Then contract it right down to the size of one junction!

[GurraJG]

There's one in Colchester as well. I have to pass by it every day on my way to Uni. It's not as scary as it looks... if you're familiar with it!!

[Dave]

If you were unfamiliar with it, you could just navigate like a normal roundabout, the counter direction on the inside is for the flow of traffic to be improved by not having to navigate the entire roundabout.

[61653]

What the christ...

How does that even work?

Basically, everyone who approaches it screams and proceeds at about 5mph, so even if they DO collide, there's not much damage

[Kevo00]

What the christ...

How does that even work?

Basically, everyone who approaches it screams and proceeds at about 5mph, so even if they DO collide, there's not much damage

I find that most sane people do that on mini roundabouts anyway. Ever played mini-roundabout roulette? Where 4 (or however many exits there are) vehicles approach at exactly the same time, and everyone sits there waiting for someone to go first? Fun.

[Ploes]

I'll see your Swindon, and raise you a Hemel Hempstead

[teccuk]

Hemel is scary. Never done Swindon but it is unique.

Highways engineers are so lazy nowadays. Got a traffic junction problem? Throw roundabouts at it till it goes away!

[Kevo00]

Lol, I have a suspicion that its more driven by money - any sort of grade separated solution or even traffic lights cost money.

[Jacko]

Im guessing its called the plough roundabout because everybody keeps ploughing their cars into it!
but thats really confusing, and i thought the Thurrock Services roundabout was bad!