Who has the right-of-way in a roundabout?
- Traffic turning right in the roundabout
- Traffic approaching the roundabout
- Traffic in the roundabout ✓
- Traffic turning left in the roundabout
Answer: C. Traffic in the roundabout
Traffic already in the roundabout has the right-of-way, so you yield to it before you enter.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says to slow down on approach and yield to any traffic already in the roundabout. It describes a driver entering only after yielding to the vehicles already circulating, and it asks you to pick your lane and know your exit before you get there. Right-of-way here is not tied to whether a car is turning left or right; it belongs to whoever is already going around. Approaching traffic waits for a safe gap and then joins.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Traffic turning right in the roundabout — Nothing in the rules gives a car extra priority just because it plans to turn right at an exit; the guide only asks you to signal right before you leave.
- B. Traffic approaching the roundabout — Traffic approaching the roundabout is the traffic that has to slow down and yield, so it does not hold the right-of-way.
- D. Traffic turning left in the roundabout — A driver heading for a left turn is told to enter in the left lane and stay there, but that does not give that car priority over others already circulating.
Remember it
Picture the circle as a moving line of cars: the gap comes to you, you don't cut into it.