Roundabout indication on exit crackdown

[curtis265]

Not sure if it's any different over there, but in WA the actual regulation says to indicate upon exit "if practicable". This is what I will use and will fight if I ever get done for not indicating.

http://www.ors.wa.gov.au/Documents/R...undabouts.aspx
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/w...00113/s99.html

Edit: Looking through the NSW Road Rules 2008 (http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/n...reg/rr2008104/) it appears you have the same "if practicable" but your rules have must. So unfortunately you have nothing to stand on and have to indicate.

that's interesting, i thought it was compulsory in WA too.

cos i hate it when people go really slow in a roundabout and don't indicate out so you wait for no reason

actually in WA people don't understand the concept of indicators as a whole... but that's a completely different argument

[Jiblet]

that's interesting, i thought it was compulsory in WA too.

cos i hate it when people go really slow in a roundabout and don't indicate out so you wait for no reason

actually in WA people don't understand the concept of indicators as a whole... but that's a completely different argument

Looking through legal definitions, "Shall" and "must" are effectively the same term. "Shall" is currently being replaced in regulations with "must" but WA is a little behind the times (no way, really?).

So technically, it is compulsary but there is the little leeway or "loop hole" of it being practical to do so.

It would be interesting the see how hard it would be to convince a judge that it wasn't practicable to use your indicator whilst travelling straight through a RAB (i believe it is not necessary when going straight through, but it is when you are exiting after turning around the RAB). On a big RAB i think you wouldn't get off, but on a small one with all the weaving gutters and islands that WA has I think it would be a bit easier to fight.

[Setanta]

"if practicable" is a great escape. I got called out on this by a police officer. I told him that I had both hands on the steering wheel controlling the car in a safe manner and that due to the reset mechanism I was endangering others by changing my hand position to hold an indicator down. He looked me in the eye, told me I was full of shit but it was the best reason he'd heard all day and then let me on my merry way