A roundabout question - how would you drive this?

[thetapeworm]

I'm curious as to how others would approach this particular piece of road and if you are bored and enjoy this sort of thing please read on

This is the approach road in question:

http://g.co/maps/u2ptq

My questioned scenario involves going "straight on" down the A643:

http://g.co/maps/e3n37

To this point with a view to going straight on at these lights:

http://g.co/maps/9pndk

To do the above you cross the roundabout and exit onto a 2-lane road, the inside lane eventually becomes a left turn and the right lane goes straight on and right.

What tends to happen is that you get people approaching the roundabout in both lanes, exiting in both lanes and then changing lanes afterwards depending on the planned route. I've seen numerous accidents or near-misses on the roundabout exit and there doesn't seem to be "right" way based on using road markings.

I'm not sure there is a definitive answer on this (and my preference tends to be to use the left lane, stay left and then move over to the right after the roundabout) but I'm interested to hear others thoughts on this as there often seems to be conflict between other drivers at this point

[218g]

I assume we're talking about fairly busy traffic in both lanes? Right lane all the way for me I think. Only exception I can think of right now might be if, on the approach to the roundabout, lane 2 was full of people intending to turn right at the roundabout onto the motorway, and lane 1 was available for me to bypass their queue.

[R0G]

If free flowing traffic -

Local knowledge use right lane all the way

Newbie to area - use nearside lane until first signage on the road surface and then merge right

Edited by R0G on Thursday 27th October 16:40