We have a new round about / traffic circle in our town, this makes a total of 4. as far as I know, we are the only town in our state which has them. I have driven in other countries that have round abouts and they are not [generally] bad or hard to deal with. Part of my duties in some of the countries that I have been to was manning an ambulance and picking up after traffic accidents. Typically those round about accidents have been worse than accidents on other road ways. Having said that, I do like them, but only where the general population is used to driving on them.

Earlier today I coming from the other side of town and going through the new round about which has 2 lanes with a high center decorative feature which blocks the view of the rest of the circle, the speed limit is 30 miles per hour. Many people drive faster than that. I was in the right hand lane intending to stay on the outside as I was going to exit the round about onto the first road. To the left of me was another car who turned LEFT onto the round about and proceeded to drive in the wrong direction. Fortunately traffic was light and he/she did not meet up with anyone head on.  IF everyone were doing the speed limit, a head on crash would have been at a combined speed of at least 60 mph which easily could have been fatal for both cars.

I, like most people, have seen too many people going the wrong way on one way streets. This is one of the big reasons that I always drive in the right hand lane no matter what type of road that I am on.