This Tortosa driver had no clue how roundabouts work and the reactions are hilarious

Maricopa drivers are hardly known for their grace — heck, there’s a reason 1 in 7 residents of this city is a member of Maricopa Traffic Rants on Facebook.

Aside from leading our Connecticut-sized county in fast-food hamburger restaurants, Maricopa also leads in drunken car crash fatalities (Thanks for the nod, ADOT). We’ve got nearly twice as many of those as Queen Creek, even though our sister city that can’t quite commit to Pinal like we can has 5,000 more residents than us.

So, it’s no surprise that roundabouts — those orbicular sort-of-intersections invented in New York but oddly only associated with Europe — may confuse Maricopa motorists. Especially when there are only seven in the city, by our count.

One very befuddled driver was heading east on Honeycutt Road just after 6 p.m. Sunday when he encountered the roundabout (or traffic circle, for you East Coasters ) at Terragona Boulevard, took one look at the glaring yellow-and-black arrows pointing right and thought, “It’s opposite day.”

Tortosa resident Logan Beloat caught the fail on dashcam video and posted it to the social networking site Nextdoor , garnering some pretty funny reactions.

“This settles it,” Homestead resident James Todd said. “Maricopa has the worst drivers in the state if not the nation.”

“In a recent inter-galactic survey, Maricopa drivers were rated worst overall,” said Santa Rosa Springs resident James Maddox. “Ballots from distant galaxies will take longer to compile but, results are not expected to vary.”

Maddox added: “Perhaps they are from the U.K. where roundabouts are all left turns to enter. Or maybe someone was having a stroke.”

Maricopa Meadows resident Jayson Biedebach accused the white sedan driver of “Low IQ activities.”

Public service announcement: If you drive the wrong way on the ring-shaped roadways that people from Maine and nowhere else for some reason call rotaries, you might encounter a “dead end.” If you ever find yourself at an unfamiliar intersection or interchange, follow the arrows and you should just get home safely.

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