Driving Mastery Research

Original analysis of official driving test data

We turn the statistics DVSA publishes into something a learner, an instructor or a reporter can actually read. Everything here is free to quote with credit, and every figure can be traced back to the government file it came from.

Report · 2025-26

The Great Britain Driving Test Report 2026

Pass rates at 316 DVSA test centres, median waiting times, regional breakdowns, first-attempt and automatic analysis — with the methodology, the exclusions and the source checksums published alongside.

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Updated 2026-10-03 · Open Government Licence v3.0

Report · 2025

Where and when young drivers crash

Of collisions involving a car driver aged 17 to 24, 11.2% happened in darkness, on a rural road, at 60mph or more — against 4.5% for drivers 25 and over. Analysis of Department for Transport road casualty data, including who is hurt and what the 269 deaths have in common.

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Updated 2026-09-05 · Open Government Licence v3.0

Analysis by Driving Mastery using official Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency data, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DVSA does not endorse this analysis.

Analysis by Driving Mastery using Department for Transport STATS19 road casualty statistics, published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. DfT does not endorse this analysis.