A1 (Salisbury) Driving Test Centre
The A1 (Salisbury) driving test centre is located in Warmsworth, England (DN5 7YB). Below are the official pass-rate statistics, multi-year trend, demographic breakdown, and how this centre compares against the UK average and its neighbours, all drawn from the DVSA quarterly statistical release.
Pass vs fail at a glance
949 passed, 550 failed, 1.5K total
How A1 (Salisbury) compares
A1 (Salisbury) performs well above the UK average. Learners passing here are more likely to pass than at most other UK centres, though this can also reflect quieter test routes and fewer challenging junctions.
Where A1 (Salisbury) ranks among 152 centres
Pass-rate trend by year
Most common faults at this centre
The fault categories most frequently recorded against learners on test. Knowing them lets you target practice on the things examiners are most likely to penalise.
- 1Junctions - observation10
- 2Mirrors - change direction9
- 3Move off - safely8
- 4Junctions - turning right7
- 5Response to signs - traffic lights6
Per-centre fault breakdowns are derived from the DVSA national fault distribution applied to centre-level test outcomes.
Pass rate by demographic
Estimated wait time and demand
Wait times at A1 (Salisbury) have been gradually shortening as DVSA recovers post-pandemic capacity. Booking is comparatively quick: learners booking at A1 (Salisbury) typically wait around 8 weeks from booking to test day.
Wait time is estimated from regional demand patterns reported in the National Audit Office investigation into car driving test waiting times (Dec 2024) and the DVSA Despatch blog updates, combined with this centre's test volume. Real availability fluctuates with examiner staffing and cancellations, always check the official DVSA booking service for live slots.
Centre details
Address
Tests offered at A1 (Salisbury)
- HGV/LGV
For other test types at this location, search the DVSA centre finder with postcode DN5 7YB.
Accessibility & facilities
Parking, toilets, and disabled-access details vary by centre. Check the official DVSA find a driving test centre tool with postcode DN5 7YB, or call DVSA Customer Services on 0300 200 1122.
About this test centre
A1 (Salisbury) is in Warmsworth, South Yorkshire (DN5 7YB) and runs DVSA hgv/lgv tests for learners across the local area. The routes are the same fixed set every day; your examiner picks one without telling you which. A1 (Salisbury) is a smaller centre by volume, 1.5K tests through 2016-17-2023-24. The figures hold up for headline comparisons but lose granularity once you slice them by quarter.
Out of 152 UK hgv/lgv test centres, A1 (Salisbury) ranks 67, which lands it in the upper half nationally. The 63.3% pass rate is 14.6 points clear of the UK figure of 48.7%. First-attempt data for A1 (Salisbury) is missing from the DVSA's DRT122C release. It's not a low number, it's no number, the centre is small enough that DVSA omits it from that particular table.
All figures shown are aggregated from the DVSA quarterly statistical release covering the most recent reporting periods available. Pass-rate calculations exclude tests cancelled by the candidate or examiner. Sample sizes and methodology are described in the source attribution at the foot of this page.
What learners should know about A1 (Salisbury)
- Don't read a higher pass rate as a softer test. A1 (Salisbury)'s rate reflects route geography more than examiner discretion, DVSA marking is centrally trained. Prepare for the same fault categories you'd prepare for anywhere.
- If you can, take at least one lesson with an instructor who specifically works the A1 (Salisbury) routes. Local instructors know which junctions are the centre's hardest and will drill them.
- Don't pay third-party sites for booking access at A1 (Salisbury). Use gov.uk/book-driving-test directly; cancellations show up on the same booking flow.
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On the day at A1 (Salisbury)
Aim to be at A1 (Salisbury) ten minutes early. Because parking and waiting facilities are not the same at every DVSA centre, check the approach on the DVSA centre finder (postcode DN5 7YB) before the day. At low demand and about 8 weeks' wait, securing a convenient date here is usually less of a scramble. The examiner needs to see your provisional photocard licence to begin, and the car you bring must be roadworthy, fitted with L plates and a working interior mirror. If Doncaster is fully booked, A1 (Salisbury) is the next closest centre, roughly 2 miles away.
Expect about 40 minutes once you set off, to the same national DVSA script. It opens with an eyesight check at 20 metres and one show-me plus one tell-me question, after which the examiner rides along for the drive. Around 20 minutes of that is independent driving, guided either by a sat nav the examiner provides or by road signs to a named destination, with one of four set manoeuvres and a one-in-three chance of an emergency stop. The drive covers the local mix of road types within roughly a twenty-minute radius of the centre. Across recent DVSA marking, the fault logged most often at this centre is junctions - observation, worth drilling on the local routes before your date.
The result is given immediately when you get back. Whatever the outcome, the examiner reads through the marked faults and prints your DL25 feedback form; pass and they take the provisional licence to trigger your full one by post. The threshold is the national one, 15 driving faults at most and zero serious or dangerous, which 63.3% of A1 (Salisbury)'s candidates reach right now.
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Data: DVSA quarterly statistical release, released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRates.uk aggregates DVSA centre-level totals across reporting periods.
Edited by Vikas. DVSA data period: 2023-24.