When taking an intermediate exit… You do not normally need to signal. Approach in the most appropriate lane and stay there until you need to change course. Change lanes when you need to leave. Signal left after passing the exit before the one you need.
When wishing to take the second exit, you should take the left lane when approaching the roundabout, unless otherwise indicated by signage.
If you're taking a right turn at a roundabout, (typically the 3rd exit), you'll need to travel around it from the right-hand lane. Continue in the right-hand lane until you pass the 2nd exit. Check your main mirror, then your left door mirror and signal left.
If the exit you require is 12 o'clock or before you need the left hand lane. If the exit that you require is after 12 o'clock, you need the right hand lane. Unless any road markings or signs say differently.
Yield ▶ The “Golden Rule” of driving roundabouts. When you enter the roundabout you must yield to circulating traffic. Yield means the other drivers in the circle have the right-of-way. An approaching motorist has to wait for a safe gap in the flow of traffic in both lanes before entering.
As a basic rule of thumb, you should be in the left hand lane if you're going less than half way or half way around the roundabout, and you should be in the right hand lane if you're going more than half way around the roundabout.
If you have a four-road roundabout, and your GPS says “take the second exit”, that basically means you should go straight (so you would skip the first exit on the right, and take the next one).
You must give way to all traffic that will cross your path from your right as you enter the roundabout. You then need to signal left as you pass the exit before the one you intend taking. At multi-lane roundabouts, you need to approach and enter the roundabout in the correct lane for where you intend to exit.
If you are taking the first exit you should always be in the lane furthest to the left. If you are taking the last exit, or if you need to go all the way around and double back on yourself, you should be in the lane furthest to the right.
Signal right and approach the exit in the right hand lane. Keep to the right on the roundabout until you need to change lanes to reach your exit. Signal left after you have passed the exit before the one you intend to take.
If you can choose among three lanes on your side of the road, pick the middle lane for the smoothest driving. Use the left lane to go faster, pass, or turn left. Use the right lane to drive slowly, enter, or turn off the road.
Explanation: When going straight ahead at a roundabout, don't signal as you approach it. Indicate left just after passing the exit before the one you wish to take.
On a four-way roundabout, the second exit will generally mean that you want to go straight. However, if there are more than four exits, the second exit would probably not be going straight.
On a standard, 2 lane, 4 exit roundabout. When turning right (3rd exit) you indicate right and stay in the outer lane (the one closest to the roundabout) until you pass the 2nd exit, when you start indicating left to leave.
Exit discharges must lead directly outside or to a street, walkway, refuge area, public way, or open space with access to the outside.
3 or 4 Lane Roundabouts
The most important thing to bear in mind with multi-lane roundabouts is that you approach in the correct lane, and use the same lane throughout the roundabout until you are ready to exit, and give the appropriate signal to come off the roundabout.
As with all junctions and roundabouts, if you're in the wrong lane, move into the correct lane safely by use of mirrors, blind spot check and signalling only if it is safe to do so.
There is no evidence to support this, other than the 'careless driving' argument. You should plan before you enter a roundabout and circling more than twice could be considered as careless driving. It is however, illegal to drive over a mini-roundabout, as they must be treated as an island in the road.
When you approach a roundabout, you must slow down or stop to give way to all vehicles already in the roundabout. This means giving way to vehicles already in the roundabout on your right, and vehicles that have entered the roundabout from your left or from directly opposite you.
There isn't a specific roundabout speed limit, but you are bound by the speed rules of the road you're on. Luckily, you're unlikely to exceed this anyway.