Driving Lessons Thornton Heath

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On your Driving Lessons Thornton heath area, your instructor will know which areas to take you depending on your ability and lesson plan for that day. A Suitable area is required for each lesson plan to go to plan. For instants it’s no good doing your reversing lessons on a busy road, thus be unable to perform the exercise enough times to master it independently. Below are a small example of lesson plans and areas suitable in Thornton Heath.

Lesson Plan: Moving away and stopping

After greeting you at your chosen pick up address. Our Driving instructor will put you at ease about the coming lesson. The best and quietest area is anywhere around the Green lane area of Thornton Heath.

Lesson Plan: Junctions – Emerging and Entering

When approaching junctions (emerging and entering), the best places for this can be the area around the Thornton Heath high street. To be able to approach junctions safely and correctly you will need to perform something called – Mirror, Signal, Position, Speed and Look.

Lesson Plan: Reversing exercises 

Thornton Heath high street does not have great areas to practise reversing, but don’t worry your instructor know plenty of places nearby and actual test places in neighbouring towns. Clutch control, Observations and steering accuracy are key to success.

Lesson Plan: Dual Carriageways and Lane Discipline

Your Driving Instructor will take you up and down / on and off the dual carriageways near Thornton Heath. We will make sure you stick to the suitable lane for your destination. Plus with the speed limit varying from 30mph to 60mph, you will be able to master the car at speed.

Lesson Plan: Emergency Stops

Obviously to perform this exercise for the first time you need to go somewhere in Thornton Heath without there being other road users. Your instructor will know all the best areas. This exercise needs to have quick reactions, but still maintain control of your vehicle.

Lesson Plan: Meeting Traffic

Meeting traffic skills are essential in the Thornton Heath area with the traffic and parked cars. Roads are narrow in Thornton Heath. Skills required are L.A.D.A, adequate clearance, steering, clutch control and mirrors.

There are many more places known to us for various exercises. There may well be occasions you need to be taken to another area for your test, for example Morden. All our Instructors are just as familiar in any areas to give you the best places to go to
improve your chances of a first time pass!

Apex Driving School offer driving lessons in Thornton Heath and around South London. The areas our driving instructors in Thornton Heath cover include:

Addiscombe, Anerley, Beddington, Balham, Chipstead, Colliers Wood, Croydon, East Croydon, South Croydon, West Croydon, Crystal Palace, Dulwich, Elmers End, Furzedown, Mitcham, Morden, Norbury, Norwood, South Norwood, West Norwood, Pollards Hill, Selhurst, Shirley, Streatham, Streatham Common, Streatham Hill, Sutton, Thornton Heath, Tooting, Tooting Bec, Tooting Broadway, Waddon, Wallington, West Wickham, Woodside.

Lessons are available in the Thornton Heath Post Codes below plus many more: