Concern over Painswick Road roundabout after smash

“TimM - looking at the photos, I'd agree. And remembering that the red car (the Renault) was being driven by a drunk driver, I suspect the road layout had nothing to do with the accident. Would agree that from the position of the VW and the heavy damage to it's off-side, it's been T-boned and pushed along into the Fiesta by the much larger & heavier Renault. Just as well the VW is not very old, as it will have much better side impact protection than a (say) 10-year-old super-mini.

If your theory is right, the black VW was on the roundabout and was hit by the Renault, which failed to stop when it reached the roundabout. Road layout therefore possibly immaterial, incapable (drunk) driver somewhat more responsible.

Whatever, the drink-driver in the Renault has been found out, and will (presumably) be receiving a long driving ban (also taking into account the additional offence of leaving the scene) from the local justices in the near future. Even if the accident wasn't his fault, he shouldn't have been behind the wheel, so only has himself to blame.”

“It is slightly hard if coming from cotteswold road to see whats coming down painswick road, if nothing there i just pull out. I also live in the hope(i wish) that other road users know to stop/slow down at roundabouts and not drive straight over at full speed.”

“Could be right there tim,”

“The Grey wall on the right of the junction as you pull out of Cotswold Road doesn't help tbh. It blocks the view to the right. Whenever i approach that mini roundabout, its like everybody doesnt know if to go or not. Every1 just seems confused. Its just an accident waiting to happen. Im just not sure what can be done to make it safer.”

“I have used this junction / mini roundabout for 20 years , and if im honest no matter which way it has been laid out , its always driver error , when it was a junction cars coming out of cotteswold rd lost sick of waiting in rush hour and just sped out in a small gap and accidents happened , and as a mini roundabout its all about the ignorance again of drivers on how a mini roundabout works ...i know ..no different from a large one but people seem to either just sit at them or everyone tries to go at the same time resulting again in accidents .... re test the drivers who are just plain stupid and make them to the theory test like new drivers have to nowadays , accidents are caused by car failure , stray animals etc the rest is a driver error of some kind .”

“Looks like the VW entered the roundabout from Cotteswold road and was tboned by the red car and pushed into the silver car.”

“Why on earth can't people just slow down for junctions, still trying to work out where the vw fox was trying to go,”

“There used to be a LOT more serious accidents at this junction before the introduction of the mini roundabout. People should be adjusting the speed for the mini roundabout but they are just speeding, this is the cause of the accidents.
Sections 184-190 Highway Code”

“there was nothing wrong before, its so obvious that there was going to be a problem there. painswick rd is a main rd, cotteswold rd is a minor rd. i think they just change things around to show they are needed in their job.”

“Regerme, your website doesn't seem to work correctly. I've just tried to check the posts for speeding in Gloucestershire, and it seems to be impossible. It is only possible to select one parameter at a time; so I selected Gloucestershire, and it showed parking. I wanted speeding, so I selected speeding, but then it changed to speeding in Kent. So, I selected Gloucestershire again, and found that the parameter had changed back to parking. Useless.

About this roundabout: when the road layout was changed, there were loads of crashes, but the police and Gloucestershire Highways claimed that everything would settle down. I think that I wrote a letter to The Citizen at the time complaining about the problems there, and I certainly remember that there were many other complaints. The problems have not gone away. Vehicles travelling slightly downhill from Matson towards Gloucester tend to be travelling too fast and regularly fail to give way to vehicles turning across into Cotteswold Road. It is also difficult for drivers trying to pull out from Cotteswold Road and turn right, as they can't see a vehicle bearing down on them till they are already partially out onto the roundabout. There are frequent minor collisions there, because I see bits of wreckage as I pass by. The idea that concerns have now been raised only by this particular collision is laughable.”