Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many (a) fatal and (b) non-fatal road accidents involving someone who owned a car but did not have a driving licence have occurred in the UK in each of the last 20 years.

The department does not hold information on whether drivers in reported personal injury road accidents own the vehicle they are operating.

Partially complete data is held for whether the driver of a vehicle holds a driving licence which is appropriate for the vehicle from 2012 only. The number of a) fatal and b) non-fatal reported personal injury road accidents involving a car driver by whether their driver’s licence was appropriate for the vehicle for Great Britain from 2012 to 2020 can be found below.

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