{"id":21463,"date":"2017-08-02T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21463"},"modified":"2017-08-02T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:43:51","slug":"most-dangerous-roundabout-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=21463","title":{"rendered":"Most Dangerous Roundabout In The UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tumbleweed\"This story has been in the news the last day or so. It concerns a new roundabout in Mickleover, Derbyshire, where there were 10 accidents within 48 hours of it opening.<\/p>\n

Resident Peter Hall told the Derby Telegraph: “These accidents are not driver error but the result of a poorly designed, unlit roundabout on a 70mph dual carriageway.<\/p>\n

“By my reckoning at least 10 vehicles have had accidents within less than 48 hours of this new junction opening – so it is probably the most dangerous roundabout in the country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sorry, Peter. It IS driver error. It\u2019s people being too thick to drive in accordance with what they have in front of them, choosing instead to put their heads down and hammer into the unknown. That sort of behaviour is one of the biggest problems with driving standards on our roads today.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t just young and inexperienced drivers, either. Far too many of these younger drivers will go through life not having a clue, and then they will become older drivers without a clue. Of course, there are already plenty of clueless older drivers from earlier generations, and they are almost as bad right now as today\u2019s snot noses will be in 30 or 40 years\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

Some years ago, when they were building the tram system in Nottingham, they removed three roundabouts in Clifton and turned them into junctions. I can remember one of my pupils was on a lesson, and we drove down Farnborough Road towards where the first roundabout would have been several weeks earlier, and he actually stopped to look around. In the middle of nowhere! This shows what is going on inside some people\u2019s heads. And sometimes, it\u2019s not a lot.<\/p>\n

Derby Telegraph has a video of traversing the roundabout from several directions<\/a>, and it doesn’t look anywhere near as bad as is being suggested. It is clearly signed, and only a complete prat would miss it. There are \u201cSLOW\u201d signs, primary route direction signs, triangular roundabout signs, illuminated\/flashing matrix signs, blue \u201cleft only\u201d circles, both normal black and red \u201cleft bend\u201d chevron signs, not to mention cones \u2013 which are always a bit of a give away that something might be ahead.<\/p>\n

The most obvious physical \u201cproblem\u201d, as distinct from the mental ones already highlighted, is that the approach roads are NSL \u2013 one of which is a dual carriageway. Being Derbyshire, that will translate to most of the residents as meaning \u201cas fast as you can in your Audi or Corsa, whilst simultaneously peeling your banana and picking parasites out of your mate\u2019s fur\u201d.<\/p>\n

To be fair, it would appear that some<\/strong> of the signage has gone up since the accidents, but not as much of it as the Telegraph (or Peter Hall) is suggesting. The direction signs \u2013 big green \u201cprimary route\u201d roundabout signs \u2013 look very well-established, and if you know that a roundabout is coming then you start looking for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This story has been in the news the last day or so. It concerns a new roundabout in Mickleover, Derbyshire, where there were 10 accidents within 48 hours of it opening. Resident Peter Hall told the Derby Telegraph: “These accidents are not driver error but the result of a poorly designed, unlit roundabout on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news","category-roadworks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}