Unlicensed Drivers Comprise One-Quarter Of Street Fatalities: Data - Streetsblog New York City
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Unlicensed drivers are now responsible for one-quarter of road fatalities — and are linked to fatal crashes much more often now than pre-pandemic, a new Streetsblog analysis shows.

In New York, as in the rest of the US, you don’t actually need a driver’s license to purchase a car!! 🤦

  • tazeycrazy@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I kind of get this. It’s not the job of the dealer to check you legally have a licence. However I would have thought that registration would require a licence and the car can’t leave the lot without registration.

    • evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Licensing (and registration) is not about owning a car, it’s about operating a car on public roads. Theoretically, you could buy a car simply for taking to the racetrack or offroad, and you wouldn’t need a license/insurance/registration.

      (Though racetracks probably require licenses, and public land off-roading has its own rules, too).