Roundabouts Are Safer. So Why Does The U.S. Have So Few Of Them? - CNBC

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17. There was one in Cherry Hill, New Jersey back in 1994.

I have no idea if it is still there, but it was generally despised.

While moving through it on one occasion, I was accident-adjacent. The details are dim now, but for some reason, I did pull into a nearby shopping center parking lot where another driver accused me of "cutting her off" and causing the accident. I was going through some intense stressors at the time and didn't have the wherewithal to argue.

The police arrived and reports were filled out. I completed the diagram/form showing the position of my car in the flow of traffic and the cop looked at me in confusion and asked, "Why are you here?" since I didn't hit anyone's car nor was my car hit. Obviously, the other driver's attempt to pin the responsibility on me didn't work and I never heard about it from her or the police. But the stress of incident has stayed with me because it was literally the first thing that came to mind when I saw this post.

And in fairness to the other driver who tried to rope me into the accident report, she may have been a bit of a pill for insisting that I be involved in the report when the police themselves determined that I had nothing to do with with it, but she had no way of knowing how much drama I was dealing with at the time, (divorce, two surgeries within the space of 30 days, and other stuff.)