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Old 03-14-2014, 12:01 PM
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The first rule about roundabout safety has to be: DO NOT CHANGE LANES ONCE YOU'RE IN the roundabout.

Twice yesterday, while going north on Morse Blvd between Havana and the bridge across the lake to 466, people beside me in the roundabout decided to change lanes once in there, because apparently they "discovered" they wanted to exit at 9 o'clock after choosing the right lane when entering at 6 o'clock.

If I had not been watching them to see they were clueless, I'd have been killed before getting the chance to see the second doofus do that.

One of them was driving the most oversized, black Lincoln SUV that's so big and high off the ground that it could have run right over me in my car if I'd not been watching like a hawk so I could get out of their way. This person (who'd been creeping along like a little old lady) could not have maneuvered a tiny Smart Car safely, much less that giant truck.