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Driver license status in fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes was examined in association with other variables in the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
There is a variety of reasons why a driver might have an invalid license, which raises a very important caveat regarding the data. The reason for the lack of a valid license is not collected in the FARS database