About Us

The Ashburn Driving School is the result of a wonderful journey of prayer and hope. Here is how that journey began:

One day our second daughter, who was 16 at the time, was ready to take her behind-the-wheel driving course. We asked her to do research on some local driving schools, and she came back to us with a couple of options. 

We then made a few phone calls, and next thing we knew, we were sending her off . . . with a perfect stranger who had just pulled up in front of our home.  Well, we thought, this is required by the DMV . . . isn't it?  

We also had asked the instructor how many hours our daughter would need to drive, and her answer: I'll know after I've driven with her, was not correct, but we didn't know it at the time, mainly because no one--neither the DMV nor the local school system--had ever made a point of telling us exactly what the instructor was supposed to provide, by law.  (To find out what would have been the legally correct answer, see the Package with Observation information under our Registration tab.)

So our daughter, who had been an excellent driver during our practice sessions, was now out doing the final phase of her licensing process, and when she arrived home with her license in her hands after only three lessons (there are supposed to be seven but, again, we had no idea), we hugged and celebrated, and then we asked her, "So tell us what you learned in your lessons!" And we never expected her answer: "We didn't learn anything, mom--we just drove around and did errands for the lady." 

Once we got over the shock of that statement, we knew that we were called to a mission: vehicle road navigation--especially for new drivers--was just too important an endeavor to let that go. We also knew this would be an important way to provide a necessary service to our community while working together in a family-based business, something we had wanted to do for a very long time.

Lyle had maintained an impeccable driving record throughout his life, right through our thirty-three years of marriage and up to the present, and he has a natural gift for careful, conscientious road navigation.

So we researched all that was involved in becoming a certified driving instructor in Virginia as well as the process of starting our own business, and then fast forward to a year later, Lyle had accomplished all of the necessary coursework and requirements, and he was now a certified DMV driving instructor.  We were thrilled!  Our business license was in hand, his instructor's license was activated, and he was ready to start changing the world and making it a safer place, one driver at a time.

And one of the first items on his list was to set about addressing the problem that we now saw first hand, and not only from our own daughter's experience: that a very  large number of driving companies were running rough-shod over the DMV regulations and failing to provide even the most basic requirements, much less the countless more-advanced skills and maneuvers that are necessary for anyone to navigate the roads of our community properly.

Knowing what teen statistics are for driving accidents, we wondered how anyone could give a driving student a license without having first provided a thorough, professional grounding in defensive and offensive driving skills and actual road navigation, not only according to DMV requirements, which are in fact minimal, but far beyond. 

And it was then that the Ashburn Driving School mission of Driving to Save Lives was born.  At that moment, we went from starting a business to embarking upon a mission; we went from providing a service to performing an honored civic duty; we went from teaching students how to drive to imparting navigational skills to them for life.

And we're proud and grateful to say that with the grace of God, we've continued doing exactly that for going on ten years now.

So we thank you for joining us in this, our mission of Driving to Save Lives, where we believe that with our students we can make world a safer place . . . one driver at a time.

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And we'd be most grateful if you would help us to further our mission by telling your family and friends about us and/or by leaving a Google review for us at this link: 

https://g.page/r/Cfj4piVKEgN4EB0/review.

Your enthusiasm for what we do will allow the Ashburn Driving School to continue providing our services, educating our community, and devoting our time to the important pursuit of Driving to Save Lives.