Man drives without license for 40 years

The only time I've ever been pulled over is riding my bike. Been driving for 3 and a bit years.

Not that that's a bad thing...
 
I don't agree with driving with no licence, but I have never been a fan of the UK system of learner driving.

The theory test is pathetic. And 30 minutes or so is not enough to ascertain someone's true driving skill. I still think driving should be done on an ongoing assessment process over the course of a few months.

Some people do 1 week intensive courses and then pass their test. All that driving crammed into 1 week is not sufficient experience to go and drive on your own regardless of the test result. I don't know exactly how it would work, but an assessment process is fairer. Some people, while fine drivers, are no good in tests, and we end up giving licences to people with less skill than some that are passed.

Also, I do not think it right for someone to come from any country and be allowed to drive on their own countries licence.
 
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.
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LOL
 
He aint the only one my old boy was busted one morning at 9am in the town.He was about 45 i reckon maybe 40 but he never ever did the test or has any insurance lol.The local station let him agree to doing his test and it was dropped before court.And he went and did the test got his insurance and went around to the local station and that was the end of that.Everything was handled in a very rural way with gentleman's agreement's.

Depends on where you live to be honest around here there is not a police station for 15 miles :D
 
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.
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What would have been the difference between you killing someone with a license than without?
 
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.
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Considering the tests back then were less stringent, I don't believe that to be the case at all. Being a better driver is a matter of experience and repetition. Comparing someone who just passed their test to someone driving for 40 years is dumb.
 
In my mispent youth I rode a 650cc motorcycle on a provisional (but full car) licence. I was always being pulled on my legal 250cc with L plates, but never on my 650.

Needless to say I am and have been a law abiding citizen for over 30 years now.

My mother never took or had to take a test as she learned during the war and obtained a driving licence then.
 
The drivers license racquet is extortionate and unnecessary, it has long since past its use. The tests are over the top and unrealistic and the whole concept that you have to pay them money every year to use a car and you are forced to buy over priced car insurance. Its a complete criminal enterprise.
 
diamount said:
Considering the tests back then were less stringent, I don't believe that to be the case at all. Being a better driver is a matter of experience and repetition. Comparing someone who just passed their test to someone driving for 40 years is dumb.
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Is it me or is this sentence contradictory?
 
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?
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The legalities of driving have no impact upon a person's driving performance.

Why would you feel any different knocking down and killing somebody on the road due to a piece of paper that says you can drive?

Also, as someone else has pointed out, the guy's got 40 years' worth of driving experience, whether he was driving legally or not is irrelevant when it comes to that.

In the eyes of the law, he was wrong to be driving of course, but it doesn't say anything about his ability to drive, and neither does a license.
 
Suarez7 said:
no license automatically voids any insurance. Absolute idiot if true.
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This is not true. It will depend on the wording of the policy and whether he ever held a licence before.

Policies differ but the most common wording I come across is words to the effect of "Holds or HAS held a licence and is not disqualified from obtaining such"

There is also Void and Voidable. Void being absolute and voidable being at the discretion of the Insurance Company basically.
 
With car insurance being compulsory, the government should run a third party insurance cover service at cost price.
 
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