Magic Roundabout (Swindon) Junctions in the United Kingdom"; however, the roundabout provides a better throughput of traffic than other designs and has an excellent safety record, since traffic moves too slowly to do serious damage in the event of a collision. In 2010, the National Cooperative Highway Research Program concluded that the roundabout reduces injurious crashes by three quarters. The roundabout in Drove Bridge has not been the only Magic Roundabout in Swindon; the roundabout at Bruce Street Bridges was until recently a Magic Roundabout. It was converted into a conventional roundabout in 2016, but with many exceptions to highway code priorities, which
Magic Roundabout (Swindon) five mini-roundabouts and the outer loop. The complex junction offers multiple paths between feeder roads. The outer circle carries traffic in a clockwise direction, like a normal roundabout (in places where traffic drives on the left hand side of the road), and less proficient users may choose to use only the outer circle. The inner circle carries traffic in an anticlockwise direction, and more proficient users may choose to use the alternative paths. Virtually the same overall configuration has been in place for years. When the roundabout complex was first opened, the mini-roundabouts were not permanently marked out and could