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[ItsNumptyBoy]

Quote: Originally Posted by KrGP (original)

P.S. Yes the LGV was on my left so I was on his right hand side, so he should give way to me.

As a point of fact...and I am not saying that you failed to abide by the law in any case.........but.....

The broken white line markings present at each of the entrances onto the roundabout carriageway direct road users approaching a roundabout to give way at or immediately beyond the line to vehicular traffic circulating on the carriageway of the roundabout.

In layman's terms this means that you give way, the majority of the time, to traffic on the right because that is where the traffic is coming from in a clockwise rotation with vehicles driving on the left. However, the same give way does apply to vehicles that are already circulating on the roundabout in front of you....may be slower or longer vehicles that have joined momentarily in advance of you from the next exit/entance around the roundabout.............hope that makes some sense...it is easier in picture form!!!!! In this situation, many people quite wrongly feel that the slower/larger vehicle has failed to give way to them, whereas, so long as that vehicle entered the roundabout carriageway prior to you, then you must give way to them, not vice versa.