This year’s Mobility Roadshow & Get Going Live! event at Donington Park will provide an exciting showcase of options for anyone with a disability seeking driving tuition.

Driving Mobility – the UK Forum of Mobility Centres – and a new online service, Disability Driving Instructors (DDI), will provide a wealth of advice and information to anyone who is looking to take driving lessons in adapted vehicles but doesn’t know where to start.

A range of adapted vehicles for test drive, including drive-from-wheelchair models, will be provided by several of the Forum centres from around the UK. Plus, individual Advanced Driving Instructors (ADIs) will be in attendance with their own vehicles, ready adapted with hand controls for testing at the event.

On stand SD1, visitors can meet the ADI’s, who will be accompanying visitors on test drives, to discuss options for their own particular needs. The Instructors will be able to provide advice & demonstrate the static cars on display. On the Driving Mobility stand (no 98), team members representing the 17 Mobility Centres across the UK will be on hand to answer queries about driving, vehicles and adaptations.

Among the drive-from-wheelchair vehicles available for test drive will be the following:

·       VW Caravelle (Space Drive) & VW Caddy (Radial accelerator/push brake with light PAS) – provided by QEF Mobility Services (Carshalton).

·       Mercedes Sprinter (Space Drive) –South East DriveAbility (Maidstone)

·       Chrysler Voyager (Electric Gas/Brake, Light PAS, Radial accelerator/push brake & over ring) - North East Drive Mobility (Newcastle)

·       Plus other vehicles provided by Regional Driving Assessment Centre (Birmingham), Hertfordshire Action on Disability Mobility Centre (Welwyn Garden City), Bristol Driving & Mobility Centre and Derby DrivAbility.

Huge thanks also to the many independent ADI’s from Disability Driving Instructors who are attending the event to help visitors get behind the wheel.

Disability Driving Instructors – a new service for learner drivers with disabilities

Disability Driving Instructors provides an easily accessible on-line “one stop shop” to help people with physical disabilities, special educational needs and those with hearing difficulties gain impartial advice about learning to drive for the first time or returning to driving after accident or illness.

The website www.disabilitydrivinginstructors.com includes an online register of specialist driving instructors who will be able to help with tuition.

Information and advice for older drivers, to help them keep driving safely for longer, is also included along with contact details for organisations that can provide help in updating driving skills and provide a trusted second opinion of driving ability.

For further information contact John Rogers

Tel:             0844 800 7355

Email:         admin@disabilitydrivinginstructors.com