Is this cheating or not?

[Iandsm]

No I'd not cut in unless, but that's a different scenario I think from your description.

If it is legal there is no argument there, disappointment yes but no one did anything wrong IMHO, also I and I'm sure many others in a strange town have been caught wrong footed approaching a roundabout and in the outside lane but wanting to turn left, sat navs will do that too you if your attention is distracted, so you could cut the traffic to your left, but much easier to just go all the way round and turn off, same manoeuvre, different reason.

And I imagine less annoying than trying to cut in.

 

[Val54]

Cutting in is annoying and inconsiderate, filtering is fine. It reminds of those drivers who seeing a queue on the motorway, dive off at the next junction only to re-appear on the entry slip road in the same direction therby adding to the delay to save themselves a few hundred yards

 

[St3v3]

No I'd not cut in unless, but that's a different scenario I think from your description.

The road is laid out differently, lights not roundabout, but the intention (jump the queue) and the action (get in front of people in the correct, signposted lane) is EXACTLY the same.

I'm sure many others in a strange town have been caught wrong footed approaching a roundabout and in the outside lane but wanting to turn left,

You're absolutely right, and no-one can seriously have a problem with that. It wasn't intentional or, like I used to see (same cars every day), routine.

At a roundabout, the worst you would get is a warning as the police would find it impossible to prove that you hadn't made a mistake and by going around the roundabout you had corrected it with no danger to ither toad users.

The fact that you believe the police might give you a warning says it shouldn't be done surely?

 

[Pudsey Bear]

I'm bowing out of this as the views are diametrically opposed and it's just semantics anyway, drivers will do as they see fit based on a particular junction.

 

[maingate]

I have watched a few Youtube dashcam videos and some of the driving is atrocious. If cameras were fitted at all traffic light controlled junctions and roundabouts, the fines would quickly pay for a larger Police Force or help with Social Care. One of the most common incidents is on Dual Carriagewways with roundabouts. Drivers heading straight on (usually 2nd exit) who are in the RH lane come into contact with drivers from the LH lane who are turning right at the roundabout.