That is not the number of those noisy and slow little cars driven by octogenarians, but an estimate of how many drivers are on the roads without a licence. Plus another 100000 without insurance. The reasons given by most drivers are the cost of obtaining a licence, including passing the Code and practical test involving official driving school lessons, and the subsequent cost of insurance for new drivers. Sadly one often reads of drivers banned by the courts simply continuing to drive.
A new road safety campaign aimed at unlicensed drivers points out to them that the consequences of an accident could be imprisonment, large fines and possibly a lifetime of compensation payment payments to a victim.
Sadly the costs both physical and material to third parties are generally the last thing uninsured drivers think about - after all accidents always happen to somebody else, never themselves.
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