Man drives without license for 40 years

Suarez7 · 18 Oct 2013 at 14:08

A lad at school I knew said his Grandad had been driving since his 20's without a license, he was 80 odd year old :eek:

no license automatically voids any insurance. Absolute idiot if true.

Five.Stars · 18 Oct 2013 at 14:21

smoove said:
Yes good on them. Oh no not breaking the law None of them have been stopped and I fail to see how its putting people at massive financial risk? If they crash into someone (which they have), they pay the bill. Problem solved.

Really? So they crash in to someone and write-off their £60,000 BMW. They pay that bill?

Your family (and the like) are the reason my, and every other law abiding motorists insurance premiums are so expensive! @rseholes!!!

Five.Stars · 18 Oct 2013 at 14:22

pitchfork said:
They pay the bill?

So they write off someones £50k BMW and then just magic all this cash out of their ass?

If they are that well off why don't they get a license and insurance?

Jesus that is freaky, i wrote out a reply almost identical to this before reading further.

mrk · 18 Oct 2013 at 14:24

Hyburnate said:
Yes you're probably right and that's why he's not been caught, at least contributed to it. However that does not 'allow' him to drive without the licenses and insurance.

I only mentioned the former part because that's all I wanted to mention. On the whole even the legit drivers who pay no attention after passing their test account for the increase in insurance costs because of their failings on the road, not just uninsured drivers.

Resident · 18 Oct 2013 at 15:55

Suarez7 said:
A lad at school I knew said his Grandad had been driving since his 20's without a license, he was 80 odd year old no license automatically voids any insurance. Absolute idiot if true.

I'm going to guess that his grandad was in his 20s before the 1930s when the UK driving test came into force. The old guy probably did have a licence but there was no test, you just wrote off for one and got it.

MooMoo444 · 18 Oct 2013 at 16:02

mrk said:
40 years without a license or even evidence of passing his test?

I'd hazard a bet that he's a better driver than the majority of people who do pass their test and so are "qualified" to be on the roads.

Maybe!

HaloUK · 18 Oct 2013 at 16:18

Five.Stars said:
Really? So they crash in to someone and write-off their £60,000 BMW. They pay that bill?

Your family (and the like) are the reason my, and every other law abiding motorists insurance premiums are so expensive! @rseholes!!!

Couldn't agree more. I am sick of paying really high insurance premiums due to cheap-skate tards and dodgy claimers.

neil_g · 18 Oct 2013 at 16:44

smoove said:
^ Yes it seems, they've got enough money todo it, but havent got the sense/intelligence to pass the theory!

must run in the family.

FishFluff said:
Sounds to me like your entire family is a bunch of ******* retards.

and that.

Glanza · 18 Oct 2013 at 16:55

40 years, the only way I could see him not flagging ANPR cameras is if it's someone else's car that shows insurance and tax but that would surely cause the owner of the vehicle to liable for prosecution aswell.

tom_e · 18 Oct 2013 at 16:58

They'll just claim TWOC, knowing that in honesty sod all will happen to an old man.

K.C. Leblanc · 18 Oct 2013 at 17:08

Resident said:
I'm going to guess that his grandad was in his 20s before the 1930s when the UK driving test came into force. The old guy probably did have a licence but there was no test, you just wrote off for one and got it.

Also although the driving test was introduced in the 1930s it was repealed during World War 2. So there are plenty of people in their 80s who've never had to take a driving test.

I happen to know of my Grandparents only one of them ever had to take a driving test.

spoffle · 18 Oct 2013 at 17:46

nick.lidgett said:
In my ill spent youth i racked up 6 points very quickly and had my full license revoked, that ment a re-test, it also ment the likely hood of losing my job and falling on very hard times, so with a guilty consience i kept driving on my provisional for the 3 months it took me to re take my theory test, hage a refresher course and pass my driving test.
It was wrong on so many levels, now when i look back and think "what if i hit and killed somebody" it still knots my stomach so to do it for 40 years, WTF?
Driving around for those few months put a huge strain on my consience, always looking over my shoulder, worrying about getting caught, i dont know how this guy could keep it up for so long, knowing what he was doing was wrong.
Now i have all my particulars and im a lot wiser in the world i wouldnt dream of doing similar but at the time i was young and stupid and on a good crack and i was so scared of losing it all i took a massive risk out of sheer desperation.
To this day most of my family still have not got a clue what i was upto back then and its still a secret that pains me to keep as we are a very open family.

Does a license prevent you from hitting and killing somebody whilst driving?

LeeUK · 18 Oct 2013 at 17:56

Although technically you wouldn't be insured if you have no licence, but if you insure, tax and MOT your car, then you have no reason for ANPR to ping you.

nick.lidgett · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:06

spoffle said:
Does a license prevent you from hitting and killing somebody whilst driving?

No smart arse of course it doesnt but ill explain it just for you,

If i knocked down and killed somebody while i was driving on the road, when legaly i wasnt ment to be there, in my mind it would be a billlion times worse for me and my consience than if i was all cosher.

Thats the point i was trying to make, what if i had ended somebodies life and screwed mine and my families and the victims families up for breaking the law?
It was more than stupid on my part and this guys being doing it for 40 years, how did he reason with himself that it was ok?

sanaxe1 · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:12

nick.lidgett said:
No smart arse of course it doesnt but ill explain it just for you,

If i knocked down and killed somebody while i was driving on the road, when legaly i wasnt ment to be there, in my mind it would be a billlion times worse for me and my consience than if i was all cosher.

Thats the point i was trying to make, what if i had ended somebodies life and screwed mine and my families and the victims families up for breaking the law?
It was more than stupid on my part and this guys being doing it for 40 years, how did he reason with himself that it was ok?

Because he was a seasoned driver who had drove for a decade more then your entire life. How would him having a piece of plastic in his wallet change anything in your scenario?

Energize · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:12

You don't actually need insurance if you deposit a certain amount with the treasury (which can be used as compensation in the event of an accident). Maybe he did that?

nick.lidgett · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:13

sanaxe1 said:
Because he was a seasoned driver who had drove for a decade more then your entire life. How would him having a piece of plastic in his wallet change anything in your scenario?

Dumbest comment ever

Seasoned driver or not accidents can happen to anybody, what if i/he hit somebody and didnt kill them, just left them severely disabled, without a valid insurance policy how could their family claim for any sort of compensation to provide care?

Suarez7 · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:15

Resident said:
I'm going to guess that his grandad was in his 20s before the 1930s when the UK driving test came into force. The old guy probably did have a licence but there was no test, you just wrote off for one and got it.

Could well be the case.

Tom_ed1987 · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:32

If you only drive locally you will never be flagged up on ANPR.
If you drive sensibly and cautiously you will never be questioned by a policeman in relation to your driving, never be involved in any accidents etc.

I bet there's hundreds of people doing this.

Sho · 18 Oct 2013 at 19:36

Should have got rewarded for driving that long without getting caught.