Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre

We have all been there.....a multi lane roundabout, rush hour traffic, and drivers blindly swapping lanes and dodging traffic as if on the dodgems at the fair. We were recently instructed to provide a report on such a scenario to assist the Court in making a judgement for the insurance companies as to who was liable. This accident had occurred at the roundabout that marked the junction with the A11 and the A406 (the start of the North Circular) and was due to drivers being in the wrong lane to make their turning correctly.

As you can imagine, this is a major junction and we had to have our wits about us as we prepared diagrams, took measurements, photographs of all entrances and exits as well as the accident site to provide the information needed by our instructing client. We even had to measure the lanes on the roundabout, no easy task. Whilst the bulk of the work was completed during the day we had to return to the location during the evening to measure the lanes, so that we could stop the traffic while causing as little disruption as possible.