I am reminded that people need to learn how or when to indicate at the roundabouts every time I drive around beautiful Tauranga.

The Pyes Pa roundabout has the most heinous of these offenders, people turning right with no signalling, leaving many a driver with looks of puzzlement.

Another incident that caught my attention was at Tauriko Drive when a car heading to The Warehouse cut off a delivery truck, leaving a look of despair and what I assume was temporary destain for the driver.

Roundabouts are not new to most New Zealanders, so why is using a turning signal such a foreign one?

New drivers to New Zealand and learner licences get somewhat of a pass with this, but only a few quick driving lessons remedy any jitters about signalling at roundabouts.

Now, this might seem like the ramblings of someone with too much time on their hands, but these small matters have enormous consequences, such as what would have happened if that delivery truck and car collided.

We are not Canada or America, where using their roundabouts is a flip of a coin, whether you will get on it or who will give way to whom.

The NZTA layout rules for turning right is to signal before entering the roundabout, continue signaling and then signal left before you exit.

Also, the middle finger does not count as indicating.

Furthermore, for a refresher on the rules about driving around a roundabout, The NZTA says to stay in the centre of the lane. After exiting, move to the left side of the road when safe. Always yield to vehicles already on or entering the roundabout from the right.

Charlie Chattaway, Greerton