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Originally Posted by NH_boater
I trust you were not saying that when two people meet in a rotary that the one on the right has the ROW. Of course, this is exactly opposite of how a rotary works here in the US. The only exceptions are the screwy intersections shaped like rotarys where the yield signs give ROW to traffic entering over traffic in the rotary. This is how the Alton rotary was before they finally fixed it, and like a few others are like the one in Dublin, NH. These backwards rotarys are an ideal recipe for accidents.
In a rotary, traffic in has ROW over traffic entering. You wording seems backwards to me.
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I thought the same thing about the "backwards rotarys". And then I moved to the Netherlands for a couple years. The traffic rule is that any car on the right has the ROW (coming in from a rotary or even a side street), unless there were little painted triangles (or a stop sign) on the road indicating they had to yield. I was very surprised at how well it worked. But I digress.
The point about knowledge of who has the ROW in the US is a good one, butI doubt that both drivers would continue driving, knowing a crash was imminent. And if there was a crash, I'm sure they would both be cited.