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Mini round about elderly drivers - Abosh (20th Aug 2025 - 00:55:20) I'm sure this is something that has been discussed at length but has anyone noticed the amount of problematic drivers on the mini roundabouts in the square that seem to be exclusively elderly people? A common thing im noticing with elderly drivers almost daily in liphook is a driver is to the right of me on the mini roundabout, it's his right of way, he waves at me to go as in his mind there is no right of way system, it's simply optional, this completely disrupts the rhythm of a roundabout and leads to near accidents or driver road rage. Example yesterday, I'm at the mini roundabout, another elderly driver has the right of way to me, I wait for him to go, he sits there for 5 seconds, it's clear...he doesn't move...so I just go and no sooner have I pulled out he decides to move and starts frantically beeping his horn at me Another thing I've also noticed with these elderly drivers, they seem to always signal right when they are going straight over the roundabout... These are just a few examples I've noticed in recent days but they have been continous for a long time now and they are almost exclusively elderly drivers, it's actually getting incredibly dangerous and giving me drivers anxiety going to the square, every time I see an elderly driver on the mini roundabout i start to tense up because I know they are going to do something stupid, I can't be the only one who has noticed this as I'm seeing it so often. Something has to be done about this before there is a serious accident.

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Ian (20th Aug 2025 - 07:05:19) Don't just blame the elderly drivers at the mini roundabouts, very few drivers stop at the roundabout leaving Midhurst Rd onto Haslemere Rd outside the cinema. Worst is first thing in the morning youngsters going to work, and later yummy mummies who have been to Sainsbury's!

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - AR (20th Aug 2025 - 09:36:50) @ Aloadoftosh. In all my years of driving I have never seen this behaviour at a roundabout before. Most people are looking at car indicators rather than how old a driver looks. What do you class as old, over forty ? Your nervousness will be an indicating factor if you get into an accident, nothing to do with the age of a driver. All ages can produce monumental wazzocks on the road. I suggest giving your car keys back to your mother, if she is not too old ....

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - k (20th Aug 2025 - 09:39:19) It's always been a problem but not just elderly drivers - Good folk of Liphook just don't understand mini roundabouts to give way to right as any other roundabout or most likely just think it doesn't apply to them - it is further compounded when school; children just step out into the road just before roundabout, without looking usually too busy on phone or iPOD

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Driver (20th Aug 2025 - 09:40:34) Yes I think the most dangerous thing is drivers NOT indicating on all the roundabouts . And that’s mostly young and people in massive four by fours that think they own the road. If everyone used their indicators life would be so much easier don’t just blame the older drivers the younger ones are just as bad if not worse their in so much of a rush all the time and a lot on their phones.

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Gr (20th Aug 2025 - 10:23:24) A lot of people dont know which side they should go around on

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - D (20th Aug 2025 - 12:10:05) Abosh, what an appropriate name. Your post certainly is a load of abosh. Given today's tinted glass etc I'm surprised you can actually see the drivers, never mind doing a mental analysis as to the age of drivers and other demographics. So what percentage of you brain is actually focused on driving your vehicle? Five? You don't give your age or how long you've been driving?

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Abosh (20th Aug 2025 - 12:31:44) Sorry but my experience is that it's almost exclusively elderly drivers, I'm not claiming younger drivers don't do this but no one below the age of 70 waves me to go on a mini roundabout when it's their right of way. These people need to be made to resit their test, they do not know how to use roundabouts and have extremely poor reactions to what is infront of them, I would bet that many of them if tested wouldn't get their drivers license renewed. Again I am not claiming younger drivers don't do stupid things, especially during the rush hour but my own experience is that it's almost exclusively elderly drivers and I'm seeing it almost daily now

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Jon (20th Aug 2025 - 14:42:56) Actually the worst examples are BMW, Audi, Porsche and VW Golf drivers, regardless of age. Abosh, are you 100% sure you’d pass a driving test if you took it tomorrow?

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Paul Robinson (20th Aug 2025 - 14:56:36) Speaking as an elderly driver, I have lost count of the times I have been waiting at the mini roundabout at the end of the Longmoor Road and witness a car being driven at speed out of the Portsmouth Road past the first roundabout by the old Lloyds Bank, ignoring traffic coming from the Midhurst and Haslemere Roads, and, as if that gave him the perfect right to drive over the next roundabout , not round it, and into the London Road heedless of traffic. Paul Robinson

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Jen (20th Aug 2025 - 16:41:47) I don't recall ever having been "waved on" by other drivers on the mini roundabouts but I do sometimes encounter hesitation. If the driver on my right, whom I have deemed to have priority, hesitates then I'll go instead. In my opinion, the biggest problem is the drivers who pull up to the roundabout indicating right and then proceed to go the wrong way around the roundabout! I've been on the receiving end of that several times, particularly when I'm waiting at London Road to turn right into Headley Road. I see someone opposite me, on Longmoor Road, arrive at the roundabout at about the same time as me. Headley Road. Having checked that Headley Road, to my immediate right, is free of traffic I pull out onto the roundabout expecting the other driver to turn around the roundabout behind me. All too often, rather than driving around to their left (ie past the Headley Road and London Road exits) in order to turn right into The Square, they turn right immediately, causing me to brake hard in order to avoid a collision! It is almost as though they can't see that the junction is a roundabout!

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - D (20th Aug 2025 - 18:25:23) Abosh, "wind up merchant" comes to mind. Wasting your time here, Sonny. How do you know the drivers you observed from your pram are over 70 anyway?

Re: Mini round about elderly drivers - Abosh (20th Aug 2025 - 19:44:50) @D Wind up merchant how exactly? If you are a pensioner and this offends you then I'm genuinely sorry but I am not imagining any of this, it is happening on an almost daily basis and I'm seeing it coming exclusively from elderly people. Many of them (not all) are an absolute hazard on the mini roundabout and they are going to cause a serious accident at some point. How can I tell if somone is over 70? Are you serious lol

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