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As long as that center circle is high enough. I had a woman in a Toyota (Camry?) fly over one at about 45+mph and slam into me as I looped around it. Totaled he
by Jtsummers 3y ago
As long as that center circle is high enough. I had a woman in a Toyota (Camry?) fly over one at about 45+mph and slam into me as I looped around it. Totaled her car, broke parts off my Explorer (repairable). Her son then tried to attack me with my bumper.
She kept insisting I turned in front of her (technically true, I was in a roundabout). She was arrested for drunk driving, and, later on, fined for all the flowers she damaged in the circle and the median she also ran over on her way into the intersection.
- hristov 3y agoSorry to hear about that. But the roundabout probably soaked up some of her speed at least.
- lukas099 3y agoWas there any kind of barrier within the circle besides flowers?
- Jtsummers 3y agoThe curb she flew over and some brick paving stones used as the perimeter of the little garden, which was enough to stop non-drunk drivers, but no wall or anything.
- hermitcrab 3y agoI came up to a roundabout near Henley in the UK and saw a little lady in a big BMW driving around it the wrong way. It was particularly terrifying as I was on a motorbike. I dread to think what would have happened if I had got there a few seconds earlier.
- hermitcrab 3y agoReminds me of this fine example of an idiot in a van using a roundabout to attempt orbital insertion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyufxcEQPGc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyufxcEQPGc
- olyjohn 3y agoMost accidents in a roundabout don't happen this way. The severity of most accidents in roundabouts are reduced significantly vs a traffic light. Drunk drivers have launched cars into all kinds of random shit and places where you would not expect an accident.