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Traffic roundabouts improve safety by requiring entering cars to yield
Priority rules inside circular junctions drastically reduce severe crossroad collisions
Modern circular traffic junctions require all entering vehicles to yield to traffic already circulating inside the ring. This priority rule eliminates right-angle t-bone collisions common at conventional crossroad intersections. Studies show roundabouts reduce fatal road accidents by over seventy per cent.
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