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Portuguese man caught driving without a licence for 35 years Wed May 10, 3:41 PM ET


LISBON (AFP) - Police in Portugal have reportedly fined a 55-year-old man 400 euros (510 US dollars) after he was caught after driving without a licence for 35 years.

Alberto Pereira told the daily newspaper Correio da Manha he had never stopped driving since he first took the wheel of a car in 1971 and even drove a mini-van for a company he worked for while living in Switzerland.

He credits his careful driving for never having had an accident "despite it sometimes being difficult to escape the dangerous moves done by those with a licence."

Pereira was stopped by police for the first time on Sunday in his hometown of Povoa de Lanhoso, some 400 kilometres (250 miles) northeast of Lisbon.