Roundabout rules.

Unless there's arrows on the road indicating that you should be in the right hand lane for straight ahead (which is essentially what '4' is), the I would always go round the outside.
 
You stay in the left and lane for straight ahead and left at all times unless instructed otherwise by road markings or signs.

Its that simple, it doesnt matter how many exits, how many lanes if there are more than two lanes you WILL be shown which lane you require.
 
ChroniC said:
Its not quite as simple as that, the arrangement of the exits are very different, that map suggests that the 3rd exit is the inside, but the 3rd exit of this round about, is dangerously close to being nearly a direct line up, but with a little bit mroe round the roundabout.
Plus it has only 1 lane on the exit not 2.
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You're complicating a simple issue, and you've been given a simple answer several times in this thread. I'm sure if you persist, enough people will agree with you to make you look right but you'll still be wrong.
 
left lane can only go as far as straight ahead- right lane must turn right to 5 and 6 and cant go straight ahead unless there are two lanes on exit 4.

Having worked in transport planning and highway design I can safely say that that is one of the worst looking roundabouts i have ever seen- 6 exits is just not a normal (modern) layout. thats probably why there is confusion over it.
 
Well if blue was going for exit 4 as well, then he would slam into you wouldnt he if exit 4 is a single lane, so its as said above, Red 1-4, blue the rest. :)
 
Personally I'd happily take exit 4 from the right hand lane but I'd give way to anyone from the left hand lane who was also taking that exit.
 
There is what the highway code says should be done, then there is what is actually done.

That roundabout is a complete pig, it's busy, got a load of roads coming onto and off of it, and is actually quite narrow, with that paving around it that most people seem to be scared of driving on.

I tend to barge my way round it in, but from where you have indicated (hulbert road, which isn't actually dual carrigeway, just splits where it joins the roundabout so there is a seperate entrance and exit) if I was the red car then I would go to exit 2 and 3, and then for the rest use the right hand lane, which is what most people do.

If you are in the left lane, and hoe to go to 4, then you will get 3 or 4 idiots pulling out in front of you from 4.

So, the above is reality, which is probably completely different to how you should theoretically go round that roundabout.
 
chippie said:
There is what the highway code says should be done, then there is what is actually done.

That roundabout is a complete pig, it's busy, got a load of roads coming onto and off of it, and is actually quite narrow, with that paving around it that most people seem to be scared of driving on.

I tend to barge my way round it in, but from where you have indicated (hulbert road, which isn't actually dual carrigeway, just splits where it joins the roundabout so there is a seperate entrance and exit) if I was the red car then I would go to exit 2 and 3, and then for the rest use the right hand lane, which is what most people do.

If you are in the left lane, and hoe to go to 4, then you will get 3 or 4 idiots pulling out in front of you from 4.

So, the above is reality, which is probably completely different to how you should theoretically go round that roundabout.
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I know, its one thing to know the rules, but its another to actually do it.
The thing that scares the crap out of me when we on it, is that if we take the left lane, people exiting 3, which i have actually not drawn on (just noticed ive missed a whole road here which will make a huge difference.)
If people leave exit 3, im going to get smashed in the side, from both sides, inside and out.
Im going to redraw me picture.

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From what people have said you should stay in the left lane, dont think i will though.
Anyone who knows this round about will know what i mean.
 
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This is similar to when a guy drove into me.

Roughly I was the blue car going 4, he was the red car going to 6 lol, he hit me then ssaid all my fault?

Anyway, on that roundabout the markings said either lane for straight on as it was 2 lanes.

Unless road markings say otherwise id always go left lane unless my exit was past 12 o clock position, i think :)
 
After reading this thread I can't add any further on the technicalities already covered.
However, I would add it boils my waste fluid that idiot planners can get away with creating road situations like this - there's examples like this allover the country. [MOST] drivers are like lemmings... they need to be directed carefully. If they're allowing one inch of free play with road markings, the idiots ruin it for us all.
 
You can go straight ahead from the right hand lane so long as the exit also has two lanes - you should enter and exit from the same lane (if you start on the right lane, exit on the right lane).

At such a roundabout keep your lane discipline, but be aware that others may not be so good.
 
Depends on what you're doing after you leave the roundabout. In most cases I'd take the left lane for #4, but if the exit has two lanes and I need to be in the right hand lane then I'd take the right-hand lane--and I'm pretty sure that's perfectly allowed.

There's a roundabout near me that has traffic lights right after the exit, and if you want to turn right at them you have to get off the roundabout into the right hand lane; it just strikes me as much easier if you do that straight from the roundabout instead of swerving over from the left--and possibly not being able to get in.
 
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