[zdragnar]

A police officer would. The penalty for an accident might be negligent driving.

The penalty for an accident without a license is, at minimum, driving without a license. You're also not likely to be covered by insurance without one either, even if you're not at fault.

[xboxnolifes]

Sure, if you assume the one time they end up driving leads to an accident, which is a crazy assumption.

There are bad drivers out there right now, driving every day that rarely or never get into an accident.

[zdragnar]

Take a person who has marginally acceptable eyesight, who never drives, put them in an emergency situation where they need to drive and you've got a recipe for much higher odds of having an accident.

Given that getting a license is an option, and it conveniently doubles as a photo ID, and there's really not a reason to not get one.