The Sunshine State is #1 in fatal crashes at intersections, with more than three times as many deadly intersections (257) as the next highest state, Arizona (82)
Florida. The Sunshine State is Florida for those who don’t know, don’t care, or hate it when authors use nicknames for some proper nouns and actual names for other things in the same category.
It’s petty, I know, but just use the words we all know for fuck’s sake.
Edit: I’m not calling out the OP (thanks for sharing this!), these words that bother me appear in the text of the study.
To be fair, I hate full 2 lane roundabouts. The right lane should be for immediate turn-offs only. Luckily the roundabouts in my area are made so the right lane splits off and only go to the next turn-off.
Right lane for the first or second exits. Left lane for the second or third exit (or reverse direction). Works great, I used to drive through a big one on a highway and a little one in the main intersection in town all the time.
Roundabouts weren’t taught or tested for in the US when people over 50 originally learned to drive. It’s not surprising they don’t know how to deal with them.
It's almost like just plopping them into places with people that have never even seen them isn't a great idea. My city randomly has a couple in busy spots and it's always a shitshow with people coming across them unexpectedly. They did nothing to prepare people for dealing with them they just built them in 🙄
Roundabouts are on the driving test, and people are expected to keep up with changes in local law. Do a tiny bit of due diligence and don't blame the people building objectively safer intersections.
It's because nobody understands that right turn on red means that you still have to stop and wait for painting traffic to clear before entering the intersection.
Actually no, it's more the permanent residents that do that. The northeastern residents are far more likely to cause an accident while trying to merge because they have very different merge laws and think that traffic has to let them merge. And I think most of the Canadians follow the speed limit signs using km/h instead of mph.