>>Give Way to vehicles coming from the right. That's fine but right should mean actually on the roundabout.
This to my mind is defect in the highway code. Particularly with small roundabouts it's possible to hit somebody entering to your left who has entered the roundabout before you got there. That's most likely to happen when there's a clear view to the right and the 'offender' is planning to straight line the roundabout.
Roadcraft isn't super-explicit either, although probably even fewer people read that. It does say something like "don't come into conflict with traffic already on the roundabout" and "prepare to stop while looking for an opportunity to join".
"You must give way to traffic on the roundabout" needs to be explicit somewhere (and taught, since nobody reads the HC).
Is that on the M1 to A46 route? I use that from time to time. I believe there is some lights control but I don't know whether it's 24 hours or peak times only. I'm not a fan - light controlled roundabouts provoke some very bad behaviour from red light runners. I always feel I'm taking my life in my hands at Handy Cross roundabout (M40 at Wycombe).
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