The NSW Safer Drivers Course teaches learner drivers
under 25 and other eligible persons to develop safe driving skills and prepare for driving solo.
This course can help you understand speed management, gap selection, hazard awareness, safe following distances, and how to keep driving safely when you get distracted.
This includes:
- a 3-hour group discussion with other learners
- a 2-hour coaching session in a vehicle with another learner.
These two sessions can be attended on different days, or on the same day. Check with your course provider.
To attend a course you need to:
- have a valid learner licence
- be under 25
- have completed at least 50 log book hours of on-road driving (excluding any 3 for 1 bonus hours), and
- have included night driving in some of those hours.
Free Safer Drivers Course
If you’re from a disadvantaged background or an Aboriginal community, you may be eligible to attend a NSW Safer Drivers Course for free.
Each year, the NSW Government offers 1000 free places for the course. This allows people who may not have the same opportunities as others to benefit from the road safety outcomes of the course.
To be eligible for a place you need to:
- have a valid learner licence
- be under 25
- have completed at least 50 log book hours of on-road driving (excluding any 3 for 1 bonus hours)
- have included night driving in some of those hours
- hold a current Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card issued by the Department of Human Services – Centrelink
- be currently or formerly in Out of Home Care (OOHC).
