That's the conclusion of the Berkshire-based Transport Research Laboratory.
It randomly matched 52,000 drivers to the Home Office's Offenders list. And men with at least nine non-motoring convictions from 1999-2003 committed 100 times more driving-while-disqualified offences as those with a clean record.
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