Location Overview: Lancashire provides an excellent setting for advanced driver training, offering everything from busy town centres and fast-moving motorways to winding rural roads and challenging countryside routes. This varied road network gives drivers the opportunity to develop the skills, confidence and awareness needed to stay safe in a wide range of driving conditions.
Our experienced team of advanced driving instructors delivers training throughout Lancashire for both business and private clients, and across the UK. Whether you’re responsible for a fleet of company drivers or simply want to become a safer, more confident driver yourself, we can tailor every course to meet your individual requirements.
Local areas we also provide training in:
Burnley
Blackburn
Liverpool
Manchester
Cheshire
We offer a range of bespoke driving courses, which include:
* Business drivers, car and van
* Younger drivers
* Pre-court assessments
* Performance car training
* Confidence training
* Motorhome training
* General advanced and defensive courses
* Motorway training
* UK Familiarisation
We have full UK coverage, and we come to you. All training takes place in your own vehicle, and training, whether for a business or private customer, is bespoke to your specific needs.
During our advanced/defensive training, our highly skilled tutors instruct a wide range of driving systems, including:
a. Creating increased powers of anticipation and planning
b. Higher awareness of speed limits and managing speed
c. Improving overall attitudes to driving on UK roads
d. Safe driving on motorways, rural roads and in the town
e. Educating drivers about all up-to-date rules of the road
f. A better understanding of the many reasons for road rage
g. Slow manoeuvres, reversing and parking
h. Driving in adverse weather
i. Risks linked to urban driving
j. Being aware of at-risk road users
k. Learning about vehicle control and skids
l. Gaining more skill and learning to drive in a more economical way
m. How to anticipate the actions of other motorists
Bespoke Reports:
After your training, you will receive a comprehensive driving report that outlines your driving standard before and after the course. This detailed report highlights the improvements made and identifies specific areas of progress. Each report is personalised to you, providing valuable insights into your driving habits and skills.
To ensure authenticity, every report includes a unique verification number, allowing you to verify it at any time. This is particularly useful for employers who may have required their employees to complete driver training. The report confirms the training and helps track the driver’s progress, helping both the individual and the employer understand the training’s impact.
Road Networks and Routes – Lancashire:
The network of motorways connects most of Lancashire, the M6, M65, M60 and M62 to Manchester and through to Yorkshire. The area is littered with fast A roads and more minor B roads throughout the county, and is a perfect location for any driver wanting to get experience and confidence on all types of roads.
Here at Drivers Domain UK, we understand Lancashire’s locality and transport networks and work to meet each driver’s specific needs. All our courses are customised to the individual driver’s needs, whether for larger corporate fleets or individuals who want to ensure they are safe on the road. We work with some of the UK’s best advanced driving tutors to deliver courses in Lancashire.
We have trained many clients in Lancashire, located in and around:
Ashton-under-Lyne
Blackburn
Bolton
Clitheroe
Lytham St Annes
Rochdale
St Helens
Liverpool
Manchester
All training is taken in your own vehicle, and our tutors will come to you.
Course Duration
We offer full or half-day training options. We also provide multiple half-day options.
3.5 hour Half -day
This is ideal for a course to cover the critical elements of driver training (such as general advanced and defensive driving, confidence, motorway, refresher, pre-court, etc.).For our private clients, this can be a great insight and assessment session, whether you want to take extra sessions later or polish your driving with just the half-day, as many do.
7hr Full day
This is ideal if you need more than a half-day session but want to complete it in one day. This course includes a couple of half-hour breaks where you can grab a coffee or lunch, and your tutor can talk through some of the training. The course is 7 hours from start to finish but with 6 hours of actual driving. It’s an intense day, but you cover a lot. Compared to the half-day session, there is more time to identify and remove bad habits and more time to introduce and practice various advanced/defensive driving techniques. The driving report will also be more detailed than the half-day session.
Business clients tend to opt for the 7-hour full-day session if they have a driver with specific issues, such as speeding, a high collision rate, or inexperience. The full-day option split between 2 drivers is very cost-effective and popular for business clients training many drivers back-to-back, as we can offer AM/PM slots from your business premises.
When considering a pre-court advanced driving course, a full-day session is more suited than a half-day session if a driving ban looks probable.
Contact us
Our team are friendly and experienced. They not only advise on the course information and how they work but also offer a non-judgemental approach for those who wish to open up and discuss specific issues. If you may be facing a court hearing, talk to us. We’ve seen every situation, and in many cases, we have helped clients on pre-court courses avoid a ban. We also understand that chatting to us is the first step for unconfident drivers when reaching out on their journey to confident driving and the courage that can often entail.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch with us online or call us. We aim to reply to email enquiries within 2 hours during working hours, or our driving course team members are available, 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, for a chat.
Road Safety Risks and Information – Lancashire
Accident rates on Lancashire’s motorways are high, and the worst-affected areas are the Preston Northern Bypass of the M55 from Blackpool, where numerous fatal collisions have been recorded, and the intersection of the M55 and the M6, where the junction is challenging. The stretch of the M6 from junction 34 towards Carnforth is also another high-risk area for accidents, so extra caution should be given along this patch of motorway. The M65 from junction 8 through to 11 past Burnley is another hot spot for collisions, with many accidents involving multiple vehicles and fatalities in the past few years. The M58 from Ormskirk into Wigan is another accident-prone area for such a short stretch of motorway. Knowing the high-risk areas for accidents on your planned trips is vital, as it can make your journeys safer.
The leading fast A roads that cross Lancashire are the A585, Kirkham to Fleetwood, the A583, Kirkham to Preston and the A59 from Aintree through Preston and onto Harrogate and beyond. These routes are littered with severe accident sites, with the worst being Mains Lane on the A585 at Skippool, the Kirkham Bypass, and the A59 around Preston. The A581 has its fair share of collisions too. The A683 from Lancaster to Cantsfield, where it joins the A687, is another hazardous route with many severe accidents documented over recent years. Urban routes into busy town centres, such as the A59 and the A6 ring roads at Preston, are concentrated with collision sites, along with minor roads leading into the retail centre, such as Moor Lane and Walker Street. Similar collision rates are seen in Lancaster along the one-way system of the A6, George Street and Brock Street. Driving in busy urban areas requires good observation and clear signalling, patience, and the ability to anticipate other drivers’ actions; this will always help your own road safety.
Lancashire has many miles of rural roads, especially over the Forest of Bowland, where accidents have been rife, and these are higher in the summer months when tourism is more popular. The B6480 across Bentham is particularly perilous and has seen many collisions. Another high-risk area is the roads surrounding the popular area of Hebden Bridge. Rural driving is fraught with issues, and drivers unfamiliar with rural routes should always check accident rates when planning their journeys, as this will help ensure extra caution in high-risk areas.
These are only a very broad outline of collision sites in the county. If you have specific roads you travel in the area and want to know which parts are at higher risk of collisions, don’t hesitate to contact us. We offer this service free of charge to anyone interested.