The number of convicted drivers who were caught without a license in the capital region reached its highest level since 2011 last year. This was announced by the Berlin-Brandenburg Statistics Office on Thursday.
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Compared to the figures ten years ago, there was an increase of 50 percent in Brandenburg and 23.7 percent in Berlin. As a rule, men were punished for driving without a license or driving despite a driving ban. According to statisticians, the proportion of women has always been well below 10 percent over the past ten years.
In 2021, a total of 1904 Berliners were sentenced, it was said. In Brandenburg there were 1704. According to statisticians, the fewest cases in recent years were in Brandenburg in 2014 (1021 convicts) and in Berlin in 2012 (1314).
