Turning right

[Citizen of Legoland]

Correct. Also what if car 2 needed to be in the left hand lane after the right hand turn in order to turn into a side street. Car 2 would end up cutting across the lane of the right hand lane.

It's like a clock; You enter at 6. If your continued direction is any point after "12", you position yourself in the right hand lane. TL;DR, you don't turn right from the left hand lane at a roundabout!

UNLESS the road signage instructs otherwise. This is the point people are missing and it states that clearly in the Highway Code.

Roundabouts (rules 184 to 190) - Highway Code

highwaycode.org.uk

If the OP posted the location we could say for certain just by checking Google Maps.

 

[Metal Biker]

UNLESS the road signage instructs otherwise. This is the point people are missing and it states that clearly in the Highway Code.

Roundabouts (rules 184 to 190) - Highway Code

highwaycode.org.uk

Is that scenario presented in the OP's picture? No.

Also, logic would dictate that if your regular path is blocked you'd be forced to make the appropriate manouvre; still doesn't mean that in a normal situation, there would ever present a reason for turning right from the left hand lane.

 

[give it to gordon]

Car 1 wrong. 100%.

Does every car in car 2 position have to effectively do a u-turn and go back down the road you’ve just left, because that’s what would have to happen for car 1 to be right?

Funny enough at the next roundabout I have ended up going back the way I came lol as the left lane turned across me lol

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Is that scenario presented in the OP's picture? No.

You are right it is not BUT it is, I assume, a dual carriageway that has been "broken into" by a roundabout. The purpose of a dual carriageway is to allow free flow of traffic so it would be odd to break that flow by reducing it to a single lane before returning directly to two lanes. As I said before, nobody can say for certain what is right or wrong without more info.

 

[Metal Biker]

You are right it is not BUT it is, I assume, a dual carriageway that has been "broken into" by a roundabout. The purpose of a dual carriageway is to allow free flow of traffic so it would be odd to break that flow by reducing it to a single lane before returning directly to two lanes. As I said before, nobody can say for certain what is right or wrong without more info.

When you assume you make an ass of u and me.

In free flowing traffic, on a roundabout you don't turn right from a left hand lane. You're turning right, you go in the right lane. It really is that simple.

 

[give it to gordon]

UNLESS the road signage instructs otherwise. This is the point people are missing and it states that clearly in the Highway Code.

Roundabouts (rules 184 to 190) - Highway Code

highwaycode.org.uk

If the OP posted the location we could say for certain just by checking Google Maps.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Highway Code.

Roundabouts (rules 184 to 190) - Highway Code

highwaycode.org.uk

Clear as mud. I suppose it makes money for car repair, breakdown, and insurance companies !

 

[Metal Biker]

Funny enough at the next roundabout I have ended up going back the way I came lol as the left lane turned across me lol

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Judging by the yellow car, too many people have licences who shouldn't.

Mandatory re-tests every five years seem to be needed.

 

[give it to gordon]

UNLESS the road signage instructs otherwise. This is the point people are missing and it states that clearly in the Highway Code.

Roundabouts (rules 184 to 190) - Highway Code

highwaycode.org.uk

If the OP posted the location we could say for certain just by checking Google Maps.

Cars coming down Hengist Way to turn right down the A299

 

[Metal Biker]

See how the green car is depicted at having the right to exit the roundabout in either the left or right lane and the blue car doesn't?