Spiral or Gyratory Roundabouts

Although I have previously uploaded a video on spiral or gyratory roundabouts, I thought it was about time that I improved the quality of the upload. In this video I go into much more detail on how to deal with these junctions, and you can actually hear what I'm talking about! I do also have a little challenge for all of my viewers. At what point in the video are the road markings incorrectly laid out? Please let me know in the comments.

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[iniehawk]

Best advice I've heard, I heard it from my dad, my instructor, Ashley and a few car and bike vloggers.
Give people space to make mistakes
Then their mistakes don't hurt you

[fluffyfetlocks]

18:21 was a bit worried about that ford with such a full boot XD

[jimg]

Hey Ashley, I have always struggled to get my head around spiral roundabouts, despite having driven for many years. And as such I have found this video very helpful indeed, so thank you! Having said that, I do feel you have missed one important thing.... if in doubt, stay in lane and follow it through. You can always turn around when safe, come back and take the exit you required 🙂

[dalmo]

My personal experience is that the majority of spiral roudnabouts I've encoutered usually have 3 lanes. 2 lanes that will carry you round the roundabout, and an exit lane, which is usually lane 1 (sometimes 2 but this is usually, in my experience, a slip road onto a motorway, and lane 2 can also be used to drop to lane 1 after you pass the exit).
If we use Ashley's vid as an example, he is taking the 5th exit to Huyton on a 3-lane sprial roundabout. 5 into 3 doesn't go. Therefore he would need to stay in the right-most lane for two exits. After the second exit he was in lane 3. After the third exit this became lane 2, and after the forth exit he was in lane 1, and ready for his exit from the roundabout.

If you can remember that on a spiral roundabout after every exit, your lane number is reduced by 1, navigating them is much easier .
This is a general rule of thumb, but always read the roadsigns as not every roundabout is the same.

[tauseefrahman]

So easy way to get understand the complicated spiral roundabout .first i have 10 to 20 percent understanding after this video it jump up to 70 to 80 percent.
Weldon Ashley keep it up.

[dencrothers]

This is great. I had an accident on a spiral roundabout because I had no idea what I was doing. Thank you 👍

[WayneTulip-zmgw]

This is very important valuable information that everyone needs to know and learn as like most of us, we weren’t taught how spiral roundabouts work, I like to think of them like this..lane 1 is for exits 1 and 2, if you need exit 3 move 1 lane to the right, if you need exit 4 move 1 more lane to the right etc, but that’s just a very rough guideline as all roundabouts are different..there’s a spiral roundabout close to where I live in the city where it gets you go right 3 exit from lane 1 the left lane! 🙃

[ober]

I'm not even from the UK, but you also taught me something with this video. I only know of one roundabout of this spiral type, it's in Graz (Austria). And my first time going through it my thoughts were definitely "wtf is this". But now I get the intention behind it.

[fredashay]

I like this style of multi-lane roundabout.
Keep moving to the right each time the lane splits until you're in the lane you need and then just stay in that lane.
No need to cut cross multiple lanes of traffic to take your exit.
As you Brits like to say, that's Brilliant!

[steamhammerk]

I have been aware of the different types of roundabout, never knew they had a names though. I think they must have been invented after I passed my driving test (that was many years ago in my case) I did not know about the lane marking order on the road was a guide to the fact that you will/will not have a lane change for your destination.
Proof that you never stop learning road craft.
Excellent video

[AndyBradley]

Passed my test 5 years ago, never had these spiral roundabouts explained to me at all, didn't even know what they were called. Always hated it when I found myself on one as the "usual roundabout rules" don't really apply. Thanks for sharing!

[paulcollyer]

I’ll be honest, while that’s how I use these roundabouts exactly, I’ve never viewed it as different to other roundabouts. It clearly IS different, but I’ve never viewed it as such.
I’ll be passing a link for this video on. Excellent video again.

[ChickenNugget-ewfl]

I am a new driver, and i had to go thru several spiral roundabouts. It was very scary to be honest, but somehow i managed it, even though it was the first time. Thanks for pointing about new drivers, that could do mistakes. We also need chances to improve our driving. Bless you, you are a lovely and humble person

[ToadyBloyster]

Good video. The only thing I’d do differently is not indicate on approach. Rather I tend to indicate separately to imply each lane change to the right until reaching my required lane, similarly to lane changes on a motorway. I think indicating right from the start might confuse people around you and could even make people unfamiliar with the roundabout think they are approaching a standard roundabout.

[stephen]

Another great video Ashley, I've been driving for just over 2 years now and I didn't even know those roundabouts were called Spiral or Gyratory roundabouts. Its good that you are teaching your pupils how to use them because im sure there are many people like myself where when I started to drive I found those roundabouts difficult when in fact they are actually easy, when I come access one of these roundabouts for the first time In a new area I like to leave extra room in front then what I usually would so I am able to give myself plenty of time to see road markings and signs

[matth]

great video as always, always been something that makes me nervous and I feel a lot more confident having watched this!

[swolemoth]

My instructor's been good as gold, but never explained to me that they didn't operate like normal roundabouts, he just seems surprised when I get them wrong. This video is top class.

[philcaffrey]

Thanks Ashley. There are 2 of these that I use regularly, one at Jct 7 of the M62, and one on the Wirral. This video, after 40 years of driving, has taught me something new. Great stuff. I also cycle regularly and have noticed that, generally, since the highway code changes, motorists are a little more generous. Not all - I still get close passes on a daily basis, but it's better. Your videos are a real education, even for someone who tries to be a good driver every day. Thanks for your work.

[josephmarsh]

It's been very helpful this video Ashley. I know another online instructor who does mock test videos who also says lots of people get confused with spiral roundabouts. This has given me a good way of knowing

[MK-]

Really useful and interesting as always, thank you. Particularly liked the ideas around 'moves to the right ' and the order of the road markings.