Widnes driving test centre: practice routes and pass rate
Everite Road, Cheshire, WA8 8PT
Widnes had a car driving test pass rate of 42.7% from April 2025 to March 2026 (6,846 tests), 7.4 points below the average across UK test centres (50.1%). Drive Round App has 7 practice routes around the centre; a typical route is about 13.6 km and takes around 18 minutes, mostly on town and residential roads (42%) and country lanes (16%).
What the practice routes cover
- Town and residential roads42%
- Country lanes16%
- B roads14%
- A roads14%
- Dual carriageways13%
On a typical route you'll go through 4 roundabouts and 8 sets of traffic lights.
Roundabouts on several routes
- Prescot Road Roundabout · Roundabout5 of 7 routes
- Galway Avenue Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 7 routes
- Lanark Gardens Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 7 routes
- Lingwell Avenue Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 7 routes
- Upton Rocks Avenue Roundabout · Roundabout3 of 7 routes
- Waterfront Roundabout · Large roundabout3 of 7 routes
- A5080 Cronton Road / Queensbury Way · Roundabout2 of 7 routes
- Bradley Way Roundabout · Roundabout2 of 7 routes
Roads the routes use most
- Ditchfield Road6 of 7 routes
- B5178 Liverpool Road4 of 7 routes
- Hough Green Road4 of 7 routes
- A562 Speke Road3 of 7 routes
- Hale Road3 of 7 routes
- Prescot Road3 of 7 routes
- Queensbury Way3 of 7 routes
- A5080 Cronton Road2 of 7 routes
Pass rate
From April 2025 to March 2026, 6,846 car tests were taken at Widnes and 2,922 passed: a pass rate of 42.7%.
Source: DVSA, “Practical car pass rates by gender, month and DTC” (DRT122A). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Practise these routes
Open the 7 Widnes routes in the app with turn-by-turn navigation, then record your drive and get an AI report on how it went.
These are practice routes built by Drive Round App around the test centre, not official test routes: DVSA doesn't publish its routes, and examiners can use any road in the area. Practise a mix of roads and junctions, not one route. Routes last updated 6 September 2026.