High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire is an ideal location for our advanced driving courses, as it is close to a wide range of roads. The M40, which runs just to the south of the town, allows us to quickly and easily provide motorway training, which forms one of a number of bases we cover with our courses.
We also look at rural road driver training to help make a driver safer and more skilled on these higher-risk roads. We often head north towards Milton Keynes, or west towards Swindon for rural road training, as both these routes have a good range of rural roads to hand, where to can focus on developing a driver and teach things like the limit point, system of car control and commentary driving. There are other areas of Buckinghamshire we also like to provide training in.
Remember – All our driving courses are bespoke to your own needs. For both business and private clients.
For urban driver training, we head into High Wycombe to help drivers with managing speed in urban areas, and to help improve their speed awareness and appreciation of higher-risk road users found more in towns, like cyclists.
During our advanced/defensive training in High Wycombe, we try and cover a wide range of things, including:
- Creating increased powers of anticipation and planning
- Being aware of speed limits and controlling your speed
- Improving a driver’s overall attitude to driving on UK roads
- Safer driving on motorways, rural roads and in the town
- Educating drivers about the rules of the road
- Better understanding of the reasons for road rage
- Manoeuvres
- Driving in dangerous weather
- Risks linked to urban driving and being aware of at-risk road users
- Learning the difference between different skids
- Learning to drive in a more economical way
- How to anticipate the actions of other motorists
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Personal:
Benefits of advanced driver training (personal):
- Improve driver ability and confidence
- Remove bad habits
- Address problems specific to your driving
- Improve your car control
- Reduce wear on your vehicle
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If you are looking at an advanced driving course as part of a fleet driver training plan, the advantages to training cover:
- Increase driver safety in your fleet
- Demonstrate Duty of Care
- Possibly reduce your fleet insurance costs
- Boost morale among your drivers
- Provide increased skill and confidence for your drivers
- Reduce your fleet fuel costs
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Get in Touch:
Whilst we have tried to detail our driving courses as much as possible, you may have more questions you would like to be answered. Please email or call us, and one of our team will be delighted to assist. We always aim to respond to all email enquiries within 1 hour during office hours. If you are ready to book a course for between 1 and 4 drivers, you can do this online for both business and private customers. Please go to www.advanced-driving.co.uk/book/
Road Safety Risks and Information – High Wycombe
High Wycombe is situated near the M40 to the northwest of London; at junction 4, it meets the A404, which runs through the centre of the town and the A4010, which veers off to the west.
There are high accident statistics within the High Wycombe area, and because most of the southern traffic flows into the town from junction 4 of the M4, there are numerous collision sites on the challenging Handy Cross roundabout. It links the Wycombe Road, Marlow Hill, A404, and the A4010 John Hall Way. Coming off a fast and busy motorway requires precise observations and indications, a good sense of direction, and exact lane exiting; it only takes one of these to be missing for a collision to happen. When there is a choice of a few busy A roads to choose from, it is vital that you are in the right lane. Numerous collisions on the Handy Cross roundabout suggest that poor lane positioning was to blame. The statistics are similar at Junction 2 of the M40, the Beaconsfield Roundabout.
The A4010 leaves the M40 and heads out along John Hall Way, merging into New Road and Chapel Road to join the A40, West Wycombe Road. The collisions found along this route are numerous and mainly occur near roundabouts, traffic lights and road crossings. This is a hectic route as it carries a high amount of traffic from London via the M40 through to Buckinghamshire, as well as local commercial and residential travel. The Cressex Road roundabout is a hazardous area, similar to the meeting of the West Wycombe Road. Cressex Road East is a hotspot for collisions as it joins Marlow Road and the A404, especially during rush hours.
Marlow Road merges onto Marlow Hill, the A404 and into the centre of High Wycombe, and the accidents occur mainly around near the Wycombe Hospital entrances and the A40 Roundabout, where there are numerous collisions as there are five mini-roundabouts in 1 and it is very challenging, especially if unfamiliar with the area. The main Abbey Way travels over the pedestrianised town centre with slip roads into the numerous carparks. This is a fast overpass, and the roundabout at Arch Way and Oxford Road is another area of concern, with many collisions noted. To the west of the town centre, Desborough Road and Desborough Avenue have very high accident rates, especially at the double roundabout linking them both. It is definitely an area to be aware of.
This is only a small outline of collision sites in High Wycombe. If you have any specific roads you travel on in the area and you’re keen to discover what parts are at higher risk in terms of collisions, please contact us. We offer a free-of-charge service to anyone who is interested.