Thousands of new people move into TV every year. They cannot possibly have seen, much less read, the lengthy prior threads on here, about roundabout safety.
The o.p. is 100% correct in bringing this danger to our attention. Most newbies know how to navigate a single-lane roundabout, but they often have never driven one with 2-lane exits.
For newcomers: Do not enter the roundabout if anybody is coming around in the quadrant on your left. Yield to them, as they might be coming 3/4 of the way around and are about to exit the circle onto the street to your right. You can get t-boned because they expect you to yield to traffic coming on your left when you're about to enter (as the driver of the small white car would have been expecting the truck to do, IF the truck driver had obeyed the Yield sign before entering like a speed demon).
Also, stagger your spacing to not be beside anybody inside the circle. Sometimes boneheads change lanes inside the circle, and sometimes trucks or high SUVs have rolled over on the sharp curves of the circles. (Yesterday there was a cement truck roll over, and my first hope was that it wasn't in a roundabout, next to a car.)
I've seen a Sumter County brochure on safe navigation of these 2-lane exit roundabouts. Maybe somebody can find it.
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