Right hand land on roundabouts

unholyangel

If theres one lane on approach then there is 1 lane on it. Doesn't stop people sometimes trying to turn it into two though.

12 o'clock or before, left lane. After 12, right lane. Unless marked otherwise, then as marked.

If you end up in the wrong lane, just take the wrong exit and find somewhere quiet to turn around then come back and try again. Better an extra minute or two of driving than 20 mins changing details and potentially a lot more time disputing liability.

prowla

Approach from a distance in A134 (showing sign).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8910771,0.8936307,3a,30y,12.14h,82.79t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1soArmsqf2-TtMQnxp2kmmsA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Road markings at roundabout show both lanes straight on on A134; only the left lane also shows left turn (1st exit into institute).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8920233,0.8937752,3a,75y,2.57h,88.87t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s1vJGF-btxzs0Jb9_VFWD1Q!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

On the roundabout, both lanes show straight on (2nd exit) A134, right lane also has right arrow (to continue around).

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8923313,0.8934897,3a,75y,334.15h,79.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sGhB9dW_O3wLWmKGl2DKweg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

The road markings are also visible from the satellite view.

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.892583,0.8933726,149m/data=!3m1!1e3

Based on the road markings, you use both lanes if approaching on the 2-lane dual carriageway A134 and taking the 2nd exit onto the 2-lane dual carriageway A134.

Tigsteroonie

Deleted_User wrote: »

It means the exit isn't suitable for over 7.5T not it's only for 7.5T. LOL.

photome wrote: »

You cannot be serious

I believe the response was facetious. :cool:

barbiedoll

There’s a roundabout near me, which I use every day on the way home from work. It has 3 lanes on the approach, there are 3 exits, left, straight over, and right.

Almost every single driver who approaches it via the left lane, goes straight over. Meaning that those of us in the middle lane, have to watch really carefully while the idiots cut in front of us when trying to exit.

Another roundabout on the same road, has a two-lane exit but it currently has roadworks at the end, meaning that the two lanes filter into one. I can’t tell you how many drivers drift along, straddling two lanes, just in case anyone tries to overtake them before the road narrows. I drive a tiny car, so I am sometimes able to drive up alongside them, but I usually get beeped at, unfortunately, yelling “it’s two lanes, are you blind?” doesn’t tend to get a favourable response!

alfie1950

I can think of one slip road down to a roundabout near me where the left hand lane is marked left and right and the right hand lane is marked right.
This is obviously because the majority of the traffic is turning right.
Yet you get all the dipsticks who enter in the right hand lane trying to change lanes on the roundabout instead of after they have exited it.
I drive all day every day and see hundreds of dodgy manouvers all the time.....it would seem most drivers haven't got a clue.
In answer to the original poster I would say that whilst it might be generally accepted if your in the right hand lane that your turning right, what do the road markings say ?

Supersonos

Car_54 wrote: »

If it's wide enough for two lanes, treat it as such.

unholyangel wrote: »

If theres one lane on approach then there is 1 lane on it.

So who is correct here?

What is "wide enough"? I personally feel two cars is too cosy and, when turning right, I am far too close to the curb of the island.

A single carriageway approaches the roundabout, a single carriageway exits the roundabout, there are no signs and no road markings, so my assumption is that it is only one lane around the roundabout, others disagree and attempt to enter the roundabout alongside me. If there is contact, who's fault is it?

neilmcl

Supersonos wrote: »

So who is correct here?

What is "wide enough"? I personally feel two cars is too cosy and, when turning right, I am far too close to the curb of the island.

A single carriageway approaches the roundabout, a single carriageway exits the roundabout, there are no signs and no road markings, so my assumption is that it is only one lane around the roundabout, others disagree and attempt to enter the roundabout alongside me. If there is contact, who's fault is it?

Common sense should prevail.

Supersonos

neilmcl wrote: »

Common sense should prevail.

I don't think my insurance company would accept that the third party didn't use their "common sense".

I'm guessing what you mean is that you don't know.

Norman_Castle

Supersonos wrote: »

So who is correct here?

What is "wide enough"? I personally feel two cars is too cosy and, when turning right, I am far too close to the curb of the island.

A single carriageway approaches the roundabout, a single carriageway exits the roundabout, there are no signs and no road markings, so my assumption is that it is only one lane around the roundabout, others disagree and attempt to enter the roundabout alongside me. If there is contact, who's fault is it?

If the entrances and exits are single lane and its "too cosy" with two cars on the island its likely it should be treated as a single lane however you will be dealing with drivers convinced its as many lanes wide as they can fit cars. There's a small single lane island at the end of my road, one entrance is regularly treated as double lane or occasionally triple lane. Once on the island about 20 foot past the give way line both cars come to a near standstill as they decide who goes first. Its a regular source of conflict and minor accidents.

LilElvis

Come on down to Milton Keynes if you want to practice your roundabout skills - we have literally hundreds of them! Magic roundabouts take things to a whole different level - the one in Hemel Hempstead scares me silly and I avoid it if at all possible.

http://www.roundaboutsofbritain.com/maggic-roundabout/