Can You Drive on Overrun Areas?
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- Overrun areas are designed to make the road appear more narrow than it actually is to slow you down. But can you drive over them?
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00:00 What is it
00:21 Why?
01:19 Driving test
02:12 Large vehicles
02:25 Examples
03:20 Not an overrun area
04:23 Interesting facts
Your confidence to stand there with the camera and just speak, along with your diction is amazing. ITV really need to consider a weekly programme where you basically explain road rules. Pop it on after Corrie, I bet it would be popular.
We all need to sign a petition and send it in to broadcasters to try and get this guy some TV air time. Would benefit everyone!
It's 2024 mate, no-one watches TV.😂
@@adamazingballs Corrie averages a few million per episode.
@@adamazingballs apart from all the old folks who seem to think the Highway Code doesn’t apply to them
Maybe after Deadenders, people will need cheering up.
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Been driving for twenty years, never heard of an overrun area. Thanks for a great expanation. 👍
I passed my car driving test in 1966 and I have to admit I learnt quite a lot from this video!
You’re never too late to learn! I passed mine in 1995, IAM in 1997 (Colorado in 2006) and this channel is still so informative
Richard you are seriously the most precise, accurate and honest driving channel around. Immensely helpful, no clickbait. Love it! ❤
Ashley Neal is the only other channel I can think of that's of this quality for honest driving information
And he gets straight into the video at the beginning, and leaves advertising to the end, so we can easily skip it. Very intelligent, and thoughtful.
These areas are part of the road. On one particular roundabout I drive (straight) over with 2 wheels solely to avoid the idiotically placed drain cover which would otherwise take a battering - normally I would make a decent attempt to negotiate correctly, of course.
(My personal opinion is that they are almost as pointless as the daft wee splats of white paint masquerading as roundabouts.)
Your explanation at 3:20 regarding road lining is worthwhile, I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who don't understand the difference between broken and solid lining.
Can’t stress enough how high quality videos these are Thanks a lot Richard
This is far less common knowledge for experienced drivers than most of your videos. Nice one!
I passed my Practical Driving Test 1st time today. :) Thanks for all your videos, Rich, very helpful with all the cameras. I'll be using them again when I adopt my first car next month!
Congrats 👏
Congratulations! I passed today from these videos!
Congratulations on passing!
My normal feed on UA-cam has been honed to woodwork, carpentry, soldering & electronics, and true crime. This video was recommended and I clicked out of curiosity and have subscribed. You're to the point, no nonsense with no annoying/distracting background music, no annoying clips from videos yet clear and concise and not too fast. Just perfect. Going to binge watch some of your videos now :)
As an ex-Brit Truck driver I can tell your viewers, if you Clipped a kerb with the wheels of the trailer(25ft away)that's an automatic fail on your Driving Test
I passed my driving test today 13/3/24 with 0 minors I watched your videos and found them so useful I wanted to come back so anyone who is awaiting their test trust me watch the videos the advice given is brilliant
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I took my test yesterday and passed with no fault. I benefited a lot from this channel. Thank you
3:55 my lorry instructor always said that anything between the kerbs is usable space, which is true sometimes we need it, even if it is solid lined. It is also examined that way in the netherlands, hit two kerbs and you're done but going over lines is fine for bigger vehicles. Awesome video btw, a lot of time and care taken for the shots to accompany the script!!
Agreed, 2 kerb bangs, you are done, and yes ,kerb edge to white line / traffic islands etc in the middle of the carriageway is yours.
I’m not aware of Dutch road rules, but in the UK it is illegal to cross a solid white line (see rule 130)
@@TheOtherTarget illegal unless unavoidable… such as the back of a lorry on a tight bend as long as they are doing everything they can to minimise it.
@@alistaircraig4724 Have a read of rule 130 - you are correct for dashed white lines, but a solid white line is illegal to cross in all circumstances (except emergency) regardless of the vehicle
@@alistaircraig4724I have no lorry driving experience, but presumably, if you are complying with the road's size/weight restrictions, it's possible for all large vehicles to avoid all solid white (and kerbs)?
Very informative as usual. Been driving 1 year + but I still check your videos.
I passed my UK test in 1989 and I check his videos regularly. There's always something more to learn.
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Very useful videos. It's very hard to understand and therefore follow these rules. In the whole of Europe, there are only minor local differences in traffic rules. Except for the UK where everything is unnecessarily overcomplicated.
' unnecessarily overcomplicated ', that just about sums up everything in the UK.
1 trend I've noticed thanks to the highway agency is the pink tarmac around the outside of a mini roundabout ( generally about 7ft wide) is more dangerous than ice, ive seen a few motorcyclists come off & my car twitches badly.
Shortly and on point - excellent 👌 sometimes to see something once is better than hear or read about it 100 times... thanks a lot, Richard 👍
Excellent production quality Richard with great narration and b-roll. Top notch information too as always!
i love videos like these, little things that nobody usually think of but have a purpose...
Bloody great work man, your quality is 👌
The "not more than 6mm over the rest of the road" is highly ironic, considering the amount of potholes around.
Most even section of road in some parts.
Great to know this information!
I don't avoid driving on over-run areas. Especially if they force you to make larger than necessary sweeping turns!
I drive on the most comfortable driving line at a safe speed and with care.
Bigger vehicles might opt to ignore some or all striping in some cases
Theres a saying my truck instructor gave me here in the Netherlands that says "lijntjes zijn voor de kleintjes" or "striping is for small cars"
What it comes down to is basically that sometimes we need a bit more road, or even all of it including an adjacent, or the oncoming, lane. If you see a big vehicle take a lot of space its probably because they need it ;)
Thankyou for the information i have been driving for years these are new ones on me in saying that though they sort make sense. Cheers for your very positive commentary on this subject.
Very useful. That patch really catches my eyes but I didn't know what to do 😅
A clear and concise explanation.
I live in a mainly rural area, and I only know of one of these, in a nearby town. It's the roundabout type with an overrun area circling the central island. As far as I know, these did not exist at the time I learnt to drive, and as I never had any instruction in how to deal with them, it has never been clear to me what the actual regulations are. Many vehicles take the wider route, but many drive straight across the overrun; probably a 50/50 split. But now I know. Thank you.
I just wanted to leave a comment here to thank you so much for your videos. I passed my test today with the help from your videos, you really put me at ease. Even though I’ve now passed, I’ll still be watching your videos to keep on learning to be a good driver! Thank you!
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Very useful to know.
We have one of these on a 4-way roundabout near us, and causes lots of confusion - particularly with cars taking the long way round when turning right, and some cars using it as a second lane for turning right!
Left and straight over are not usually a problem.
Thank you Richard! Again very informative video! Was not aware of the overrun areas but of course always try to avoid driving over them at all times. Now have a better understanding the theories and enhance my judgement when encounter them in future. Thank You!
Great video Richard, there's always something new to learn.
I have absolutely been wondering about this! So useful, thank you
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Interesting video. The rules seem as vague as anything. So you can use the overrun areas, but could be pulled over by a copper if they fancy it. You shouldn't install them where people are likely to cross the road, except if the local authority decide they want to ignore that, effectively turning a safety measure into a hazard.
If you are in a car you really don’t have a reason to use the overrun. It exists so trucks and large busses can navigate tight turns in cities. Doesn’t seem vague to me.
I agree that the rules are vague. If you didn’t want normal folk to drive over them, then why not paint a solid white line around them. Large vehicles can cross the white line - as it is essential -and we can not. Having no marking is confusing. For a roundabout near me on the exit from a supermarket. Large overrun area as buses do a U turn at the roundabout. I tend to use the overrun if turning at the roundabout, as I have to go slow anyway, and avoid it if going straight across.
There’s a T junction near me with a broken line section, presumably to make the junction more 90 degrees rather than a ‘filter’ to join the road at a faster speed. All unnecessary since the road surface resembles the moon and you can’t go over it faster than a crawl without destroying your suspension.
Same as all the speed bumps that have potholes between each one.
If the councils were truly concerned about road safety, rather than adding all of these calming measures, perhaps they should properly fix the damn roads instead of quick patch works that last five minutes.
The rules are no vaguer than any others. Driving over the overrun is fine. Driving too fast is not fine. What is "too fast"? Waaah, it's vaaaague.
Thanks for clearing that up.
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i passed my test second time last week and your videos were a huge help. thank you Richard, best driving youtuber out there
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I passed my practical lessons today after watching alot of your videos .Thank you and keep up the good job
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10 Years of driving without a single point or incident and I always thought these were so that you can clip a nice apex 👌👌
I think a lot of us are confused about these areas, so this is a really useful video Richard, thanks!
Here in Canada, drivers are seeing a huge variety of new traffic calming systems installed, but rules and restrictions of so many of them are not being adequately communicated to drivers. Different drivers have confusion and different opinions regarding their use and how they are regulated by laws. I have reviewed the most recent, up-to-date driving instruction manual, intended for new drivers, which is produced and distributed by the Ministry of Transportation and that manual has very little or no information concerning many of these traffic calming structures.
Ultimately, traffic calming features are implemented for drivers that are basically stupid or drivers that breach the laws that already exist to operate a motor vehicle. These features are also incredibly expensive to the taxpayer. It was about 15 years ago that an investigative reporter for a major media outlet here, did a deep dive into the cost of a single speed bump and determined the cost to be just under $30 thousand dollars.
Thanks for the video explaining them. I hadn't seen them until a few months ago and I didn't know if you're allowed to go over them
I would love to say thank you for the videos i have passed the practical and again thank you for the support the late 2 years
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Vas really interesting,more like this please, thanks
Too quick to guess, but I got Greenstead immediately. It took me an extra second to realise this was the entrance to Hawthorn Ave.
New subscriber and loving your videos good work keep it up 👍 learning a lot thank you
I think it would have been useful to clarify that "all vehicles MUST pass round the central markings except large vehicles which are physically incapable of doing so" on mini roundabouts by law. Mini roundabouts (which often are raised) are not overrun areas like the red area in the video.
very good info, thanks for share
We don’t have many of these around my area. Great info, particularly if I’m out and about in a LWB van!
Took my test today and I passed with 6 minors, without taking any driving lessons your videos has helped me hugely. Thank you
Thanks for clearing that up. If everyone takes care then they’d be no need for these silly (and expensive) road design ideas.
I passed my practical driving test today. Thank you very much for your video really help me a lot 😊
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That was great, thanks.
Thanks, I'd wondered about this.
I'm pretty certain they are for lorries to get around and the definition you read out is the explanation to why the rab just isnt small without it
There is a small section of overrun on the exit of a mini-roundabout in my neighbourhood. Firstly, the mini-roundabout is tiny and a known nightmare, especially when it's busy. Hedges and fences block the view down the "minor" route. So, while it is a broken give way line, most people including myself will come down to a near stop in 2nd anyway, so we can stop if someone barges out of the blind side road.
Maybe the overrun is there for people who dont know the area or junction as a "calming measure" to signal to them to slow down by making the roundabout exit really tight and narrow.
Once I commit to the roundabout, going straight on, I will drives straight over the overrun. Why? Because the road is invariably lined with parked cars and oncoming traffic are always out over the white line ... so to follow around the overurn puts you into far more danger and far too close to the already cramped oncoming lane.
I see it, I agree with it's purpose, but beyond that I am not a child, so I drive over it.
I even use many of these videos for my driving here in Germany, I mean yes much of it does not count here but there is so much in the videos that I can use for here. I only passed my test (here in Germany) 2 months ago, yet lived in the Uk my entire life, weird and long story but hey I passed here and yet these videos are still great even for me now.
Thank you!
Nice information there and very useful.
One thing you alluded to (with the left turn at a roundabout) is to also check the same when turning right on larger roundabouts with overrun areas in the middle for bikes, and cars, trying to pass on the right. Happened quite often on one particular roundabout I used regularly
Take care out there 👍
Alluded, I think.
@@qwertyTRiG Thank you 👍
I thought I typed that originally but looks like I either didn’t or autocorrect changed it
@@smilerbob Or the correct spelling eluded you.
(Not being sarcastic; merely unable to resist a pun.)
@@qwertyTRiG Taken as intended and my sort of humour 👍
There is one of the tiled areas in the middle of Kingsway in London, with a row of steel bike horses set into it. It's flush to the road, and I had to use it one day to safely get past a truck. However, what I didn't know is that it isn't always flush to the road. It changes, intentionally but with nothing to indicate the change, from a pretend kerb to a real one and back again. Because of the heavy traffic and nighttime conditions, I couldn't see this, hit the kerb, lost control, hit one of the bike horses (luckily with no bike locked to it), wiped out my front forks and was catapulted through the air. Lucky my huge backpack saved me from any serious injury.
Since then, I never take for granted that these fake pavements are continuously fake. I think it's really dangerous to make part of the road's furniture look like it's something it isn't. Clarity should be paramount. Likewise forced perspective is very dangerous. A motorcyclist, for example, might think they can fit past a coach, and as they try to do so, the available road actually narrows, and pedestrians may even be involved, as you rightly pointed out, because they think it's pavement. Utterly stupid. All road users should have clear and definite information about the space available on the approaching road, whether kerbs are dropped or not, and how fast they are actually going. Trying to control traffic by creating these optical illusions is really stupid and dangerous.
I rode motorcycles (and drove cars and coaches) in London for many years, but now retired I no longer live there. I would be interested in seeing this arrangement in Kingsway that you describe. It sounds crazy and I can well imagine how the accident you suffered might have occurred.
The points you make are sensible and justly critical and deserve to be put to the authorities. Given the underlying aim of turning big cities, in this case London, into traffic-free neighbourhoods (see the think tank, Chatham House's, video proposal for the London of the future), anything to discourage people from driving or motorcycling is good. However the traffic division of the local Met Police ought to see the sense in your realistic appraisal of the nonsense that has been introduced in Kingsway, and no doubt elsewhere. I suggest you make them aware of what you have so lucidly posted here!
I agree they are stupid. They are trying to use psychology but everyone has a different response and making the road look like a racetrack is just temptation to many.
The number of what-ifs is preposterous.
In that case highlighting the real curb with markings of some kind does seem necessary
Gosh, that was useful, and some of it was news to me (even with 60 years driving experience).
I was taught (many years ago), 'the more white there is, the less you should drive over it'. This was emphasised as a sliding scale from solid = do not encroach, to the least white = lane markers. I'm afraid I habitually drive over low kerbed, unlined, overrun areas only if safe to do so, conditions and traffic permitting.
Good little video
Good man. Thanks
Great video
Last Christmas, I ended up in the Thornton Drive area of Colchester (sort-of behind the hospital) and the number of vehicles parked on both the traffic calming and overrun areas in that estate was scary! There should probably be a general reminder that they aren't car parking spaces either...!
.............flipping lucky to park anywhere in Colchester, strewth.
Doesn't have quite the same ring as the Wham version, but it's alright.
Very very good video
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I have been driving/riding for over forty years, and have only come across one of these. Thanks for explaining what these are for. The one I have come cross is on a mini roundabout, and every time I go there it irritates me!
2:45 Check the mirror AND the blind spot please. Trust me. Cyclists can teleport into your blind spot, especially in urban areas. In such an instance as this corner you could combine it with "looking into the road you are about to take". Mirror, blindspot, look into the corner, glance all round as you proceed.
Learnt something new
People in Tewkesbury stand on one of these prior to crossing the road and assume it is part of the pavement.
V helpful ... thanks.
Going to need a degree to understand all the different new road stuff, I really wish they were all the same across the country as when you travel into unfamiliar areas they can have different road things which can catch you out
So an overrun area is a mish-mash of uncertainty to catch the motorist out as usual. By the time you have (maybe) worked out what type it is you will have probably broken some regulation or other.
If you find it that confusing, you should probably give up driving.
Lolly-pop or flag-bearing school crossing guards are a thing of the past in Australia. These days all we have is either "pelican" crossings (pedestrian traffic-signal controlled) or in school zones, the automatic electronic speed-zone advisory signs that activate morning and afternoon during the peak school arrival and departure times - that is 7:30am to 9:00am and 2:30pm to 4:00pm in my city. e.g. drops a normal 60kph zone to 40kph within those specified times.
Another, interesting "calming measure" we have near here is on a 60mph country road. There was a deceptively tight "kink" in the road. Repeatedly right hand turners would "clip across the apex" and cause massive, some times fatal head on accidents. So they modified the corner in a rather strange way. The brought the inside apex in a few meters to "open" the corner, but, the extra surface they put in is a different type and colour. The original "kink" corner shape remains visible, while the actual kerb has been brought back a few meters.
When you approach this on a clear dry day, maybe a bit spirited, the weird surface and the fact the corner appears to have 2 different shapes is absolutely 100% effective at making you say on the brakes a second or two longer.
Good example of a Chicane in this video.😮
Nice video and Take care.😅
Been driving since 2015 and I didn't know this! I thought it was to make the road look nice 😂
really good
There are two over-run roundabouts near where I live. I drive over both deliberately. Not for speed or anything like that, but for safety.
If you follow the tarmac part fully, then any car coming from the left thinks you are going left. I was pulled-out on several times before I took the decision to ignore the over-run area. And have never been pulled-out on since.
They can be a good idea, but I don't think whoever is putting them in, is considering the full risk assessment of their decision.
I'm convinced a lot of the people who plan and design road markings etc are not drivers, their ideas may appear good in theory but in the real world they are not practical.
Are you indicating as you go around? There's a 7 junction roundabout with over runs near us and while I do use the over runs sometimes for the reason you describe, indicating helps too, yet i see very few people bother. .
@chillstar 7 junctions sounds quite a lot. The roundabout itself must be quite big.
The ones near me are 3 and 4 junctions and quite small.
No, I am not normally indicating when I'm going straight on. I don't want to give the impression I am continuing right as cars are too quick to pull out on you in this area.
It's quite common for a car to be travelling around the roundabout and a car joining and immediately taking the first exit keeps going on the belief the car already there is continuing past that junction.
Not protocol, but seems to works as long as people are going where they are indicating. No indicators, don't assume anything is safe.
TBH, even with indicators I'll hesitate until I know they have gone past the point of no return but most don't. TBH, I'm amazed there are not more accidents but we do see quite a few crimped fences.
From the UK Standards for Highways: "Light vehicles are not legally obliged to avoid overrun areas in the same way as the white circle of a mini-roundabout and therefore concentric overrun areas cannot be relied upon for the purposes of achieving deflection."
Traffic laws only work when they are simple and this isn't simple. I have never heard of any driver being fined for driving over the overrun area and if you cross one sensibly there is not a problem.
I know a roundabout where the entire middle of the roundabout is paved as an overrun area.
Bumpy then 😅
Thanks for the explanation 🙂. but I still prefer to use overrun areas. Most comfortable with all wheels, otherwise you feel more bumpy.
The overrun areas in the center of the roundabouts in my area are raised up, like a speed bump, so drivers are (hopefully) discouraged from flying right through them.
Unfortunately a lot of drivers around these same roundabouts love to plow right through the center divider sign... like, this happens a lot... in the same place... over and over again. I'm convinced it's the same person who somehow still doesn't know that there's a roundabout there.
In Herefordshire there's a trend for solid white lines to be painted several feet out from the edge of the road, to create the illusion that the road is narrower. If you don't drive over them, you'll likely hit the oncomig traffic. So the highways authority is deliberately creating "emergencies"!
I use them fairly regularly, but not to drive faster. It's quite simple, if I drive around or avoid it, I'm using more fuel, and wearing my tyres more. I simply maintain the speed I was already travelling at. I can see the merit in them near crossing areas like schools etc though.
Just got my first car and learner insurence with Collingwood
Overrun areas are supposed to be 6mm from the road height but often aren't when they are poorly maintained. When cycling I hated the feeling of being forced on to an overrun by a car who didn't understand that I couldn't just hop on to the overrun without dismounting until I get to a place where it's vaguely level, unless I was on a mountain bike or something with fat tyres.
very informative. i work in templeborough, rotherham where they have just replaced a small roundabout with a small roundabout with a huge overrun areola. it's definitely more than 6mm. maybe it will bed in over time with heavy traffic going over it. i go around the outside as fast as i dare, no room for error. it annoys me because the tightness of the left turn going onto the roundabout cancels my right indicator. the jump coming off it is fun though.
You can drive anywhere as long as your suspension is up to the job.
You should put together an app or website package people can but with virtual lessons. You'd be a great help to people and make a little bit of cash. The videos are great eveb for fulk drivers like me but a structured programme in order would really help some learners. 😊
Hi Richard, as I’m a regular watcher of your videos I thought you might like to know, tomorrow I’m going to call a driving school to see what they can do to help me, driving around my town is so easy and so boring as we don’t have very many nice fun places here and I want to be able to drive in my local city in Leicester, there are so many places in Leicester that I want to visit and I want to make myself and my family proud but most importantly I want to be able to drive to nice fun places in Leicester either alone or with my family, as I have Aspergers apparently they have a team of specially trained driving instructor who are taught how to deal with people with a disability so that would be really good for me, I’ll see what they say tomorrow but hopefully I can do some dual carriageway and motorway lessons and also some spiral roundabouts. 🙃
I hope it goes well.
Whilst they are not overrun areas, worth mentioning as related, is the role of the centre circle in a mini roundabout. Once they were raised, which discouraged driving over them. Unfortunately, due to cost cutting, they are generally just painted circles. However, painted or domed, it is an explicit offence to driver over those centre circles unless your vehicle is so long you cannot avoid doing so. There are dozens of UA-cam videos of cars being driven over the centre circle, at speed, several of which resulted in fairly hefty collisions. The reason that the rules are there is to slow down the traffic, and if cars just drive over the centre at speed, it can be highly dangerous. In effect, they are a traffic calming measure too, albeit this one with the force of law behind it.
I passed my test this morning. All I did was go roundabouts. I genuinely thought I faild. But I passed😊 getting a new car in 2 weeks
That's great news! Thank you for watching and congratulations on passing!
@@ConquerDriving thank you. I still watch your videos. And like seeing ppl passing there test. Test day.
Thanks, I'll continue to smash across them using the straightest possible line, interesting video though.
I love how well you explained overrun areas. Short and to the point!
I assume that small roundabouts (ex. only drawn out in paint) serve a similar purpose as overrun areas?
Not sure if you covered this in one of your videos, my apologies in advance.
What are the rules regarding fast acceleration (ex. from a traffic light)?
Assuming one accelerates up to the speed limit fast (but does not exceed it) is this considered as "reckless driving / exhibition of speed" and therefore, illegal?
Can be deemed careless should you show that you are not in control of the car etc (wheel spin, nearly colliding with another vehicle)
Usually if a cop sees you harsh accelerate they would issue you with a S59 warning. Very rarely results in a careless/reckless charge tho.
This is the first time I've ever heard of an overrun area, and there's one near me. I just assumed it was some sort of pointless decoration around the roundabout.
they are there basically to allow larger vehicles that require the extra space and not really for general use.
In my area there is a school crossing with traffic calming measures either side of it, in the form of 2 brutally steep speed bumps, you absolutely do not want to go speeding over them even when driving a car or you will probably ground your vehicle. I get why they're there though, with a huge park directly opposite.
The stupid thing is that there are many sports cars which probably cannot drive over them at all without grounding out. My car is completely standard and it can't go over normal speed bumps at more than 5 Mph. I don't think it is right for road-planners to install furniture which makes it impossible for perfectly legal cars to drive over without getting damaged.