One in 12 French drivers, roughly 2.5 million people, have no licence or insurance, revealed a report.
An investigation after two fatal accidents in a week involving unlicensed drivers found a growing number of people driving while banned or without having passed a test.
According to the report, the French Ministry of Transport placed an official estimate of the number of uninsured and unlicensed drivers who are regularly on the road at 7.5%.
Criminologists said the use of forged driving licenses could take this figure up to 10%, or 3.3 million illegal drivers, revealed the report.
It said many of them were young and came from the deprived suburbs of French cities, but that others were older people driving while banned, or those who had never taken a driving text at all.
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