One for Nigel?

On my way to work in the morning i come up to a crossroads where it seems you take your life in your own hands crossing it!!!!!

Because the road that runs through it is a 60MPH limit it can be a bit scary getting across it.

Who should give way to who or is it common courtesy to wait until every exit is clear???

As most morning's i find you have to wait for a space and rocket away!!!!!!!!!

Some help on this would be appreciated.

Cheers for your replies

It sure saved me dusting off my highway code book which is probably well out of date!!!!!

Nigel wrote: Yield ?, lol interesting term, I know its used in ROI, but also the States ! Can you give me more info on the junction, draw me a picture if you want, include all roadsigns and road markings. From the sound of things one road has a straighter run than the other. It is also important for me to know if any of the roads has white lines down the center, and what length they are in compariaon to each other. Killians approach sounds very good, in the event of no signs. Does the one road actually have a 60 limit, or is it national ( which may be 60 in this case, but is different if you see what I mean). What is the speed limit on the other road ?

The road ahead of me is a national speed limit road and the road i am pulling out of is a country lane.

The junction has no signs whatsoever and does not have a yellow cross hatch in the centre of it(box junction).

I will try and post a pic in a mo....................

http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.6174&am p;lon=0.3106&scale=100000&icon=x Ah thats better!!!

We don't have a sign like that.

Also, when we talk about national, I think you are talking National Roads, we don't have them either, we have A, B, & C roads, the latter rarely being signed as C.

We are talking speed limits, we have a term national speed limit, which is complicated and means different things to different vehicles.

Foe example, single carrageway road ( two lanes, one in either direction, seperated by a white painted line, broken or otherwise).

National speed limit :

Cars,motorcycles small vans = 60 mph

Vans with a max laden weight in excess of 2 tons ( transits, partners etc) = 50 mph ( this is the most broken one as people just don't realise it exists)

Vehicles over 3.5 tons (I think, don't actually have the highway code in front of me) = 40 mph.

This is why national speed limits are used, they can change the limits without changing the signs, and have multiple limits for different classes of vehicles from one sign. 

Theres a whole load of signs available, I have seen that one, but its up to local councils which they use.

I haven't got my books in front of me, but the normal when on a minor road approaching a major road is give way in X yards ( can be meters now), followed by the actual give way.

The one you have shown is for people on major roads, showing them there is a cross roads ahead, but they have priority.

I doubt the map, when we get it, will actually give me enough information to answer the original question, maybe he can take a couple of pictures and post them.

If in doubt, give way !

I like some of your Irish signs, the blackspot one is a favourite.

I don't like the yellow backgrounds though, I prefer white, the same way as I don't like your yellow side marking lines on roads, white is much better.

Cheers for all your replies i was only interested as when i am at the junction you either get waved across by the driver opposite just as a car appears from the right or you get beeped from the car behind too impatient to wait and cross the junction safely!!