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Sky_Blue_Daz said:

Bit slippery outside, keep warm.

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You too, Daz.

Will venture out later, but for now it is all about being wrapped up on the sofa watching last night's NFL game.

A little bit of winter come early.

Just remember, the colder weather won't make the idiot drivers drive any more carefully.

Going to get snow here today...or at least on the high ground. Time to be a kid again :joyful:

Otis said:

You too, Daz.

Will venture out later, but for now it is all about being wrapped up on the sofa watching last night's NFL game.

A little bit of winter come early.

Just remember, the colder weather won't make the idiot drivers drive any more carefully.

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I spoke too soon.

Daughter just asked for a lift to school, as her normal lift wasn't happening.

Only went a few hundred metres before someone pulled out right in front of me. Grrrrrrrrr!!

Tis a bad junction though. For those who know it, it is the roundabout when you come from town up the Radford Road, past Radford Common and just after you hit that little stretch of dual carriageway.

It's a nightmare one. When you come from town you approach the roundabout and all but have to look behind you to your car right for the traffic that is coming from Sadler Road to either Brownshill Green Road or Keresley Road.

Really surprised there haven't been a stack of accidents there, because it happens to me all the time and the missus too.

We come from the Sadler Road way, so it is us who have to encounter the traffic coming up the dual carriageway and not looking to their far right.

That car this morning I missed by inches. He stopped at the roundabout, so I went to drive towards Brownshill Green.He looked right, but seemingly only looked to any traffic coming down the Keresley Road that would be going right at the roundabout to Brownshill Green way and not over his far right shoulder and he pulled out right in front of me.

Anyone else have problems there?

The one by the Shepard or the one by the wallace? Does my head in when people pull out on the one by the Shepard when they need to give way.

Yes, that's an old "favourite" Otis.. A lot of my mates when I was an apprentice lived in Radford and Coundon, so used to go up there heading for the Bell, and saw many such incidents. Funny thing is, I remember talking to myself as I approached that roundabout, basically commentating on whether the guy in front would look sharp right or not.

Nick said:

The one by the Shepard or the one by the wallace? Does my head in when people pull out on the one by the Shepard when they need to give way.

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It's not the one by the wallace, it's the one before that.

olderskyblue said:

It's not the one by the wallace, it's the one before that.

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The by the sheppard or the one further back?

I don't mind the one closer to town's end, the Shepard one is annoying.

Yeah. If you are coming from town you go past Aldi, past Radford Common and then you hit a little stretch of dual carriageway going up the hill. Tree lined to your right.

It's the roundabout at the top of the hill.

It's a crazy junction anyway, because if you are coming from Sadler Road you have to go across two lanes of traffic to approach the roundabout towards Keresley and Brownshill Green Road.

If you are new to Coventry or indeed to that area the last thing you think you will have to do is too look back over your shoulder to your right for traffic coming almost behind you.

There are no signs at all to be seen, anywhere!

A warning sign wouldn't go amiss.

Ah yeah, coming from Town there is the weird bit to the right where you dont expect cars to come from.

then there are usually cars parked if you go towards the Wallace, so that takes away a lot of space.

Nick said:

Ah yeah, coming from Town there is the weird bit to the right where you dont expect cars to come from.

then there are usually cars parked if you go towards the Wallace, so that takes away a lot of space.

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That weird bit to the right where you don't expect cars to come from is where my car comes from.

Otis said:

That weird bit to the right where you don't expect cars to come from is where my car comes from.

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They should block that off and make it one way.

The whole 20 foot and then it's one way is silly.

Nick said:

They should block that off and make it one way.

The whole 20 foot and then it's one way is silly.

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It is. Very confusing to anyone who hasn't been that way before. It feels like you are driving into traffic the wrong way.

Otis said:

It is. Very confusing to anyone who hasn't been that way before. It feel like you are driving into traffic the wrong way.

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It doesn't help that people can see the one way sign in the distance so assume it's one way.

Thankfully I dont bother going too quick up there in case, but if you didn't know it then it might cause issues.

Nick said:

It doesn't help that people can see the one way sign in the distance so assume it's one way.

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Yep. Not even that far in the distance. I would say it was about 30-50 foot away.