traffic lights on roundabouts..

[5lab]

ello all

the misses has just passed her test, and is (as learners go) a fairly compitent driver. the one place she gets caught up though is traffic lights on roundabouts - she struggles to notice the difference between lights before a roundabout and those for a roundabout. the same thing comes as instinct to me, but i was wondering if there are any hard and fast rules??

Any other tips (any books perhaps) that give equivilent advice for getting from a new driver to someone who can drive most welcome

[BOF]

'Roadcraft' is a good book to start with...then, if she has a birthday coming, have a think about the IAM course...only if she fancies it...no point in forcing it.

http://www.iam.org.uk/

BOF

[7db]

...and if you can get away with buying her a £7 book for her birthday, can I swap her for my missus?

[anonymous-user]

Southampton is a nightmare for this sort of thing, there's so many bloody sets of lights that sometimes it can seem like sensory overload. Only yesterday I saw a driver accelerate across a junction and nearly t-bone a Transit because he saw the 'wrong' set of lights go green. I can't really offer her much advice other than take it slowly and carefully, these things tend to come with practice.

[5lab]

already got a copy of roadcraft but i feel it might be dropping her in at the deep end a little bit? to my mind its a useful tool once every aspect of driving has gone subconcious - she's not at that stage yet (will be in ~6 months, no doubt).

will try and find a few more roundabouts with lights for her to practice on but the trouble is she's fine once she knows the junction - its just the unknown she struggles with - and i can only think of 2 (in lewes) near here (brighton)..

[BOF]

7db said:

...and if you can get away with buying her a £7 book for her birthday, can I swap her for my missus?

7db,

I can offer you a deal on a complete set of Encyclopedia Brittanica in pristine condition.

Not needed, my wife knows foCkinG everything...

BOF :-)

PS - I think Roadcraft is now £15?

[Zeek]

5lab said:

already got a copy of roadcraft but i feel it might be dropping her in at the deep end a little bit? to my mind its a useful tool once every aspect of driving has gone subconcious - she's not at that stage yet (will be in ~6 months, no doubt).

will try and find a few more roundabouts with lights for her to practice on but the trouble is she's fine once she knows the junction - its just the unknown she struggles with - and i can only think of 2 (in lewes) near here (brighton)..

I reckon there's a bunch of them up the road from you around Gatwick and Redhill...

[BOF]

5lab said:

already got a copy of roadcraft but i feel it might be dropping her in at the deep end a little bit? to my mind its a useful tool once every aspect of driving has gone subconcious - she's not at that stage yet (will be in ~6 months, no doubt).

will try and find a few more roundabouts with lights for her to practice on but the trouble is she's fine once she knows the junction - its just the unknown she struggles with - and i can only think of 2 (in lewes) near here (brighton)..

Try this...get her to mention out loud every road sign that she sees, including white paint on the road suface,as of her next drive.

It can get the eyes up from dipped to main beam and improve observation and anticipation.

BOF.