Roundabout situation - which lane do you use?

[GunpowderGelatine]

Say you're approaching a roundabout that has 3 exits as follows:
Exit 1: At 12 o clock/straight ahead
Exit 2: At 3 o clock/ left
Exit 2: At 6 o clock/going back where you came from.

You need to use exit 2, and there are 2 lanes going round the roundabout. Do you:
A. use the right hand lane all the way round to the exit or
B. Use the left hand lane, moving into the right hand lane once you've passed the first exit?

I know which I use, and what I was taught when learning to drive, but I'm lead to believe there are 2 camps of people on this with differing views. Which lane would you use and why please?

TIA

There are still two exit 2s

FFS. Does anyone know how to reset my brain?

OP, go and have a cuppa

Haha! It’s b.

3 O'clock position for exit would be taking the right lane upon entry to the roundabout, then when passing the 12 O'clock position, you indicate and filter into the left lane ready to exit at 3 O'clock.

if you are turning right (at three o'clock) having come from the six o'clock position you should be in the outside or right lane, which will lead you directly into the turn, no need to switch lanes

staying on the left until you have not taken the 12 o clock position means you are going to run someone off the road who was expecting you to go straight on. I would beep you and throw my hands up in the air making the international sign language of WhatThe Actual Fuck? or DidYourLicenceFallOutofACerealPacket?

If I'm turning right i use the right-hand lane, many many drivers do not! I have witnessed many near misses on roundabouts near where we live, particularly lorries who drive down the left hand lane and go around the roundabout to take the 3rd exit still in the left hand lane. I daren't go straight over in a right hand lane these days. There are no road markings to suggest that you can do it

I was taught to do B. Passed my test late 2018.

DP is adamant he was taught A, passed in 2006.

This thread is hilarious 😂

(It’s B for sure)

I'm learning to drive and have been taught to do B.

It's clearly B.
People who do A (whether or not they are indicating right) boil my piss, even worse than people who are in the RH lane but go straight ahead, cutting up people in the LH lane when they 'merge' back in.

Unless markings indicate otherwise, if you are turning left or going straight on you use the left hand land, anything after that use the right hand lane.

Don't expect other road users to follow these rules.

love this thread. Glad you got there in the end OP!
It's B.

Right now we have (kind of) establishes WTF I'm going on about, I agree it's B!!! My mum and others I've met swear blind it's A because "for the first 2 exits you always use the left hand lanes" - even if there are ONLY 2 exits on the roundabout! There's a roundabout near me that I drive over everyday full of A people and the amount of time little B me has had a near miss is infuriating

Any exits past 12 o'clock are the right hand lane- even if it's the 1st exit.

Proper giggles. I do this all the time, OP; try to explain something, then lead people off in different directions (pardon the pun!) as I'm trying to clarify...I high five you!

But in seriousness, in answer to the question, it's whatever is a multiple of 10.

I constantly have this argument discussion with DH. If there are two lanes approaching a roundabout the left hand lane is for left or straight. The right hand lane for right and going back on yourself.

I’ve been hit by someone doing A on a dual carriageway (where road markings show both lanes can go straight on).

Absolutely the A person at fault.

I would do B. I was also taught you can go straight ahead in the right lane as long as you come off in the right lane at the exit.

I still don't 100% get it. I get that if you are turning right at 3 o'clock you need to be in the right hand lane. But after 12 o'clock do you need to move into the left hand lane to leave the roundabout? Surely no-one will be going past exit 2 in the left hand lane and not leaving there?

I was taught to do B. Passed my test late 2018

DP is adamant he was taught A, passed in 2006

Well, it’s, B (and I passed in 1988). You should think about confiscating his car keys.

You only use the left lane to turn right if the road markings tell you you can.

If find this quite scary tbh. No wonder there's so many near misses on the roads.

Mind I was a passenger recently in a car with someone who jumped red light, used a compulsory right lane in a roundabout and used the first exit. Couldn't pick a lane full stop and went back and forth between 2 consistently.

I felt actual fear and made a mental note to refuse all offers of lifts in future

Well, it’s, B (and I passed in 1988). You should think about confiscating his car keys.

There's a few other things that we were taught differently but this roundabout thing was the one that he really thought he was right about til a quick google showed him I was right. He uses the right lane now. He was also never taught reference points in regards to lane position etc.

It's B. I passed my test 2007.

Checked with my dad (who owns a driving school), he said B.