About Start Smart Driving Academy

Start Smart Driving Academy is a driving school serving students in the Southwest Metro Denver area. Located in Lakewood, Colorado, Start Smart Driving Academy helps drivers, both new as well as returning-to-the-road, develop the confidence, skill, and awareness for a lifetime of safe driving. At Start Smart Driving Academy, we believe that we have a very important challenge. This challenge is to teach people how to be safe and courteous drivers. We take this critical challenge very seriously as we realize that being a safe driver could be a matter of saving lives. Gary and Vachelle Voss started Start Smart Driving Academy in order to teach teenagers, adults, and seniors how to be safe drivers. We are a family owned and operated driving school which focuses on providing personalized driving instruction. With the significant population growth in the Denver metro area, we believe that teaching the importance of safe driving skills has become a high priority as the number of vehicles on the roads has increased while the road infrastructure has not grown as fast. This population boom has created more vehicles with less space, which is an instant recipe for accidents.

Vachelle Voss

Owner/Lead Drive Test Examiner/Business Manager

Vachelle is the owner of Start Smart Driving Academy (SSDA). Vachelle earned a B.S. Degree in Accounting from Metropolitan State University (Go Roadrunners!) and an M.B.A. in Accounting/Finance from Regis University and she strongly believes in the value of education.

Vachelle is a State of Colorado Certified Third-Party Tester and is also a classroom instructor at Start Smart Driving Academy.

In her free-time, Vachelle enjoys spending time riding her horse Paisley in the Colorado mountains or going hiking with her dogs Alette and Emie.