Rule 1 of Roundabouts is to yield to traffic already in the circle, a memo this idiot driver didn’t seem to get.

Huntersville commuter and Redditor /u/IndependentBad6569 shared head shaking dashcam footage from earlier this week (Apr 15, 2025) to the /r/IdiotsInCars subreddit showing a driver in a Nissan Altima (surprise, surprise) fail to yield to OP as he was in a roundabout, almost causing their own T-bone accident.

Check out the dashcam video embedded below with the original Reddit thread linked here.

The incident happened in Huntersville at the roundabout that intersects Mt. Holly-Huntersville Rd, S Main St. and Highway 115 (AKA Old Statesville Rd.) (Exact location on Google Maps linked here.)

As OP’s dashcam footage shows, he enters said roundabout, a standard, two-lane one.

Nothing complicated or confusing about it, except that…it’s a roundabout.

As he drives through the roundabout and attempts to head onto S. Main St., still in his own roundabout lane, a driver in a Maroon Nissan Altima can be seen slowing and approaching off Highway 115.

Instead of yielding, which a sign instructs drivers to do if they didn’t already know the rules, the Altima driver blasts through anyway.

His harebrained maneuver almost causes his own T-bone accident, as we can see OP slowing and coming to a complete stop to avoid T-boning the idiot driver.

There seems to be a passenger in the backseat with no one in front, which either means that’s the dude’s wife with newborn baby out of view, or it’s his kid.

Thankfully, nothing comes of the incident, however, I don’t think the Altima driver quite understood why he almost got into an accident (he didn’t learn his lesson.)

“The circle is the highway. You’re at an on ramp. You don’t jump in front of cars on the highway, don’t jump in front of cars in the circle,” the top rated comment and common sense analogy from /u/tmstksbk reads.

“The lowest of the low IQ was the dude I saw REVERSE because they missed their turn off. I was behind him honking and telling him to just got around but no avail,” a comment from /u/Mr_McMuffin_Jr reads.

“Good tests to filter out the rubes (also known as country-come-to-town in the south) are: 1. They don’t know how to use a roundabout. 2. They cut across lanes in a parking lot,” /u/bkturf adds.

In North Carolina, violators who fail to yield to traffic with the right of way are subject to a base fine of $35 before fees and three demerit points on your record.