# please explain "jughandle" traffic pattern

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-jughandle-traffic-pattern/160075 "2003-03-09T13:11:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2003, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-jughandle-traffic-pattern/160075/21 "2003-03-11T01:11:31Z")

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I can see why they are safer than turning left. I’m an insurance adjuster and would guess that turning left in front of oncoming traffic is probably the second most common crash. (The first being rear-ending the car in front of you).

My problem with them is that there does not seem to be any friggin’ signs explaining how they work for us out-of-towners.

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