COVID-19 Driving Test Guidance
Given the instructions from DVSA regarding COVID19, we have asked instructors/pupils to follow the guidance for Driving Tests.
We’re supporting the campaign to contain the spread and help DVSA.
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KWIK PASS Driver Training
- 75a Crawley Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 1HX
- 079 666 777 77
- info@kwikpass.org
Arrange your driving test appointment
If your car driving test was cancelled due to coronavirus, you were sent an email with a new date and time for your test.
The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) will email you again soon to ask you to go online and choose your preferred date and time for your test. When you arrange your test, you’ll need to say if there’s a good reason you cannot wear a face covering when you take your test
Booking a driving test
Driving tests are being carried out as normal since the cancellations and backlogs because of coronavirus as a priority. Sign up for email alerts or contact our team to get an early booking.
When you go for your driving test
Do not arrive for your driving test more than 5 minutes before your appointment time. You will not be able to use the driving test centre waiting rooms at some centres. The toilets can be used if requested whilst you attend for the test. Some test centre waiting rooms at present have to stay closed to help prevent the spread of coronavirus.
Keeping you safe when you take your test
DVSA has introduced social distancing measures and safety precautions.
These include:
- driving examiners wearing face coverings – they might also choose to wear gloves and use disposable seat covers
- limiting the number of people arriving for a driving test at the same time
- not allowing your driving instructor or supervising driver to sit in the back during your test
Wearing a face covering
You must bring and wear a face covering when you come for your test, unless you have a good reason not to. This includes if:
- you have a physical or mental illness or impairment, or a disability that means you cannot put on, wear or remove a face covering
- putting on, wearing or removing a face covering would cause you severe distress
- you need to remove it during your test to avoid harm or injury or the risk of harm or injury to yourself or others
You need to say if you have a good reason not to wear a face covering when you arrange your test.
Your test will be cancelled if come for your test without a face covering and you did not declare you could not wear one when you arranged your test.
You will need to remove your face covering briefly so your driving examiner can check your ID. Find out how to wear and make a cloth face covering.
During your driving test
If you make a serious or dangerous fault, which means you’ve failed, your driving examiner will direct you back to the driving test centre, where the test will end. This is to minimise the amount of time you need to spend in the vehicle.
Find out more about how the car driving test works.At the end of your test
Your driving examiner will:
- ask you to get out of your vehicle before they give you your test result feedback
- ask if you want your instructor to come over to listen to the feedback if it’s safe to do so
This is to minimise the amount of time you need to spend in the vehicle.
When you must not come for your test
You must not come for your driving test if:
- you or someone you live with has coronavirus symptoms
- you’ve been told by the NHS Test and Trace service that you’ve been in contact with a person who has coronavirus
- you have entered or returned to the UK in the last 10 days, except in very limited situations
You have to stay at home (self-isolate).
Change your driving test appointment if you need to self-isolate on the day of your driving test.
You can do this free of charge if you’re self-isolating, including if you do it at short notice (within 3 clear working days of the test).
Contact Us If You Have Any Questions
- 75a Crawley Road, Luton, Bedfordshire, LU1 1HX
- 079 666 777 77
- info@kwikpass.org
