It’s a known fact that there are a lot of car accidents in France. If we reported all of them, you’d be reading about nothing other than fatal and non-fatal accidents across Occitanie.
Much has been said about getting rid of the trees at the side of the roads, and lowering the speed limit to 80 km/h on smaller roads. Speed cameras do a good job to slow people down, that is when they aren’t destroyed by protesters – primarily the gilets jaunes.
1 in 100 drivers don’t have a licence
All that aside, did you know that one in 100 cars are driven by drivers without a licence in France?
According to data released to RTL, there are 680,000 drivers on the road without a licence. That number has almost doubled in 10 years.
Some of these drivers are banned and have had their licence taken away from them, but a shocking two thirds of these drivers have never even taken a driving test.
4.5 % of all accidents are caused by these drivers
