Galicia woman, 74, fined for driving for 53 years despite never having passed a test
Friday, November 4, 2016 @ 9:44 AM
A WOMAN who has been driving without a licence for 53 years has been sentenced to community service in the far north-western coastal town of Ferrol (Galicia).
María José F.B, 74, has never taken or passed a driving test, but has been getting behind the wheel almost daily since 1963 and says she 'has never had an accident' nor had any 'legal problems'.
Her more than half-century of never having been asked to show her driving licence ended recently when she had a minor bump on the Basanta roundabout on the FE-13 highway from Castilla, en route to the AP-9 motorway sliproad, heading in a southerly direction towards A Coruña.
The knock was not serious, only causing minor bodywork damage, but the man driving the car María José damaged was incensed and called the police to the scene.
Officers asked to see both drivers' car paperwork and licences as a matter of standard procedure, but the pensioner explained she did not have the latter as she had never taken a test.
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