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Crawley driving test centre

Unit 2 The Pavillions, Brighton Road , Pease Pottage, Crawley, RH11 9BJ

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Pass rate 2025/26
42.7%
GB 50.0% · South East 52.9%
Median wait, Aug 2026
10.4weeks
Free slots 24 weeks ahead
Tests a year
11,305
4,831 passed

Key facts

  • Crawley's pass rate was 42.7% in 2025/26 from 11,305 tests, 7.3 points below the national average of 50.0%.
  • That puts it 28 of 30 centres in South East (South East average 52.9%), one of the lower pass rates in the region, 10.2 points below it.
  • Since 2021/22 the pass rate has risen by 3.6 points, from 39.1% to 42.7%.
  • On waiting times, learners who took a test in August 2026 had waited a median of 10.4 weeks since booking; the first week with 10% or more of slots still free was 24 weeks ahead.
  • A year earlier (August 2025) the median wait was 8.3 weeks, so waits have grown by about 2.1 weeks.
  • 29.6% of the standard slots in the booking window were still unbooked in August 2026, which usually means a cancellation or new date is realistic here.

Crawley tests from The Pavillions at Pease Pottage, on Brighton Road at the southern edge of the town rather than inside it. That placing shapes the test. Three of the five practice loops on this page take in ten or more roundabouts, and the busiest has twelve in under seven miles. Broadfield, Southgate, Bewbush Manor and Breezehurst are the named ones, and Crawley's neighbourhoods were laid out around them, so the roundabout is the default junction here in the way the crossroads is elsewhere. Nearly seven in ten roads tagged around the centre are 30 mph. The pass rate has climbed since 2021 but still sits well below the South East average, and the region has several centres inside an hour that pass a great deal more.

Drive the Crawley test routes before test day

5 loops from the centre, 46 km in all, with 42 roundabouts and 112 marked turns. Generated from the road network within 2.5 km of Crawley; not DVSA’s own routes, but the same roads.

Drive it before test day

Drive all 5 loops around Crawley from your phone before you ever sit in the car: every roundabout, every junction, in the order you will meet them.

  • 5 routes · 46 km · 112 marked turns
  • Examiner-style marking on signalling and observation
  • Street View tour of each route
  • Every roundabout and junction, in the order you'll meet them
  • The four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios, included
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  1. Route 1 · via Old Brighton Road (South)
    11.1 km loop with 12 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Parish Lane.
    11.1 km · 26 turns · 12 roundabouts
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  2. Route 2 · via Old Brighton Road (South)
    8.7 km loop with 5 roundabouts, 11 right turns, 12 left turns and a stretch of Horsham Road.
    8.7 km · 28 turns · 5 roundabouts
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  3. Route 3 · via Grouse Road
    11.6 km loop with 10 roundabouts, 7 right turns, 7 left turns and a stretch of Horsham Road.
    11.6 km · 24 turns · 10 roundabouts
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  4. Route 4 · via Parish Lane
    7.9 km loop with 11 roundabouts, 5 right turns, 5 left turns and a stretch of Tollgate Hill.
    7.9 km · 21 turns · 11 roundabouts
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  5. Route 5 · via Brighton Road
    6.3 km loop with 4 roundabouts, 3 right turns, 6 left turns and a stretch of Horsham Road.
    6.3 km · 13 turns · 4 roundabouts
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The same access also opens the four test manoeuvres and eight roundabout scenarios: the two things a route drive cannot teach you.

The roundabouts are the whole story at Crawley, and they are not all of one kind. Broadfield, Southgate, Bewbush Manor and Breezehurst are large and multi-lane, built to keep new town traffic moving. Nine mini-roundabouts sit within the same area and ask for the opposite: slow, tight, and easily misread as an ordinary give-way.

Getting the lane right on the approach matters more here than at most centres. On a big Crawley roundabout the exit you want can be two lanes across, and a lane taken late is a lane taken badly. Practise choosing it early, holding it round, and signalling off without drifting into the lane beside you.

Away from the roundabouts the driving is slower. Roughly seven in ten roads tagged around the centre are 30 mph and only a small share are 20, so the estates off Creasys Drive, Bellevue Farm Road and Cordingley Drive are ordinary 30 mph streets rather than calmed zones. Fourteen schools sit inside the same radius, which is few for a town of this size. Only fifteen signalled junctions do, which means traffic lights are a much smaller part of this test than the roundabouts are.

The loops also reach Horsham Road, Tollgate Hill and Parish Lane, where the limit rises and the sightlines lengthen. About one road in five in the area is tagged at 50 mph or above. That is where speed control gets tested in both directions: enough of it on the open stretch, and off it again in time for the next roundabout.

Pass rate at Crawley, 2007/08 to 2025/26

Share of car tests passed each April-to-March year. Dashed line: Great Britain average for 2025/26.

30%42.5%55%GB 50%42.7%07/0811/1216/1720/2125/26

Month by month, 2025/26

0%30%60%AprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJanFebMar

By year and gender

YearTestsPass rateMaleFemale
2025/2611,30542.7%41.6%44.5%
2024/257,86940.1%38.7%42.1%
2023/247,04036.5%35.7%37.6%
2022/235,89035.7%36.1%35.3%
2021/226,48339.1%40.1%38.0%
2020/211,97242.7%44.3%41.1%
2019/206,08241.3%44.3%38.4%
2018/196,41339.8%43.3%36.4%

South East average 52.9% · GB 50%

Waiting time for a test at Crawley

Median weeks between booking and taking the test, for tests taken each month. Dashed line: GB median for August 2026.

07.515GB 11.9 wks10.4Sep 2023May 2024Feb 2025Nov 2025Aug 2026
MonthMedian waitWeeks to free slotsSlots offeredStill free
Aug 202610.4243929.6%
Jul 202610.4244131%
Jun 20268.5244525.8%
May 202611.1244230.5%
Apr 202611.9243831.2%
Mar 20267.7244823.3%

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Test day at Crawley

The address is Unit 2, The Pavillions, Brighton Road, Pease Pottage. It is a small business unit south of Crawley proper, and it is not somewhere you pass by accident, so use the postcode rather than the town name and find the unit before your slot rather than on the way to it.

DVSA runs car tests and ADI part 3 here and nothing else, which makes it a quieter site than a multi-purpose centre. Nothing is published about wheelchair access or step-free entry, so ring ahead if you need either. Parking and a waiting room are not published either. A unit of this size usually has a handful of candidate spaces and somewhere to sit, but that is what is typical for the type, not what the record confirms.

Most candidates arrive by car with an instructor rather than by train, given where the centre sits relative to the town.

Tests are booked, moved and cancelled only through GOV.UK. Waits here run at a little over ten weeks, shorter than at Burgess Hill, which is the nearest alternative at about fifteen kilometres and passes only a few points more.

What DVSA publishes about Crawley

Taken from the GOV.UK test centre finder, checked 3 September 2026. Where DVSA says nothing, this site says nothing.

Tests conducted here
carADI part 3
Wheelchair access
Not published. Ring DVSA before the day rather than assuming.

Other tests at Crawley

This centre is not car only. DVSA publishes results for these categories separately, and they are taken by different candidates on different vehicles, so the rates are not comparable with the car figure above.

Motorcycle

Module 2 2009/10
75.0%36 tests

Year by year at this site

Learner reports from Crawley

No reports yet for this centre. If you tested here, the first one is yours to write.

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What examiners mark most often

DVSA does not publish faults by centre, but it does publish them nationally. These collected the most marks across every car test in Great Britain in 2025/26, and they are the same ones you will be marked on at Crawley.

  1. 1Junctions - observation
  2. 2Mirrors - change direction
  3. 3Junctions - turning right
  4. 4Response to signs - traffic lights
  5. 5Control - steering
  6. 6Move off - safely

All ten, and what each one means

Getting there

Unit 2 The Pavillions, Brighton Road , Pease Pottage
Crawley RH11 9BJ

Directions in Google Maps · Check centre notes on GOV.UK

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Questions learners ask about Crawley

Is Crawley an easy test centre?
Its 42.7% pass rate in 2025/26 is below the 50.0% national average. Busy urban roads and complex junctions usually explain lower rates; knowing the local routes closes most of that gap.
How long is the wait for a driving test at Crawley?
In August 2026 the median gap between booking and sitting a test at Crawley was 10.4 weeks, and you had to look about 24 weeks ahead to find a week with at least 10% of slots free. DVSA publishes this monthly; the figure above updates when they do.
Where is Crawley driving test centre?
Crawley test centre is at Unit 2 The Pavillions, Brighton Road , Pease Pottage, Crawley, RH11 9BJ. Arrive at least 10 minutes early with your provisional licence; parking rules vary by centre, so check the learner reports below.
How many driving tests does Crawley do a year?
11,305 car tests were conducted at Crawley in 2025/26, of which 4,831 were passed.

Source: DVSA tables DRT122A (pass rates by centre and month) and DRT122F (waiting times and availability), Open Government Licence v3.0. PassRank adds the comparisons and rankings.

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