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Wed, Dec 31, 2008

Roundabout

Posted at 5:49 pm MST to Miscellaneous

I hate traffic rotaries, roundabouts and other traffic control devices that depend on people knowing how to merge properly and understanding the concept of yielding.

This afternoon I went out to get my mail and pick up a few things in the Costco shopping center, which has a roundabout instead of a 4-way stop at an intersection in the middle of the parking lots. I encountered someone who did not understand that the vehicle in the roundabout is not supposed to stop to let others enter.

One advantage of driving a pickup is that the bumpers are actually designed to bump: I came out of the accident with a scuffed bumper. The other vehicle ended up fairly crunched.

And the other driver, who started out claiming that I hit her, got a ticket.

Cell phones are really handy in these situations. I called 911 and my insurance company from the accident site. And I did NOT move my vehicle from where it came to rest until a sheriff's deputy had seen exactly where the accident occurred.

Not the greatest way to end the year...

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