In south-west Sydney, a 49-year-old man has been charged after allegedly ramming a group of stationary motorbike riders at the intersection of the Hume Highway and Johnson Road, according to police. The incident occurred around 8:30pm on Friday, and the driver then fled to Bass Hill Plaza, where his Holden sedan crashed into a fire hydrant. Helmet camera footage obtained by 7News appeared to show the car barreling between the riders and driving over one of the bikes.
Some motorcyclists seemingly punched at the person in the car, and one jumped on the vehicle's roof, according to the footage. The riders allegedly pursued the driver and assaulted him at a nearby service station. Police arrested the man at a unit on the Hume Highway the following morning.
He was taken to Bankstown Hospital under police guard for treatment of injuries sustained during the alleged assault. The accused has been charged with predatory driving and not giving his particulars to the owner of damaged property, and remains under police guard in hospital, due to appear before Bail Division Court on Sunday. In Höör, Sweden, a 45-year-old man will face Lund District Court next week after a dramatic incident at a City Gross supermarket.
He is accused of hitting a young store employee with a van and then alternately accelerating and braking with the employee on the hood. The trial begins nearly three and a half years after the alleged incident due to a long series of obstacles. In central Uppsala, a police patrol attempted to stop a flatbed moped, but the driver, a man in his 55s, tried to run over the patrol.
No one was injured. The driver tested positive on the police breathalyzer and is suspected of attempted violence against an official, illegal driving, and reckless driving. Another man in his 55s, a passenger on the moped, is not suspected of any crime.
Intoxicated and impaired driving was reported in several locations. A man was cycling erratically on the E18 near Väse in Karlstad municipality, veering into the high-speed lane. Police found him to be intoxicated and took him into custody under LOB to prevent an accident.
The man, in his 45s, was also suspected of minor drug offense. In central Oskarshamn, police received a call about a car driving into walls and buildings. The caller reported the car stopped after hitting an electrical cabinet next to the cinema.
When police arrived, the man, in his 55s, was still there and was suspected of drug-impaired driving. In Eskilstuna, a man in his 40s is suspected of several crimes after a swerving car journey. Police were alerted at 10:45 am about the dangerous driving, located and stopped the vehicle.
The man is suspected of aggravated drug-impaired driving, drug offense, and aggravated unlawful driving because he did not have a license. Outside Ludvika, a man in his 45s is suspected of drug-impaired driving. Assaults on police and resisting arrest were also reported.
In addition to the Uppsala moped incident, a 35-year-old man was checked by police in an incident reported by Nya Wermlands-Tidningen, though details remain limited. Unlicensed driving cases highlighted long-term evasion and legal consequences. In April 2026, police in Warwickshire, UK, stopped a dark BMW 520d for a routine check.
The 64-year-old driver's temporary driving license had expired in September 1978, according to the BBC. The driver had violated all applicable UK rules regarding temporary driving licenses but avoided detection for nearly 50 years, according to the police investigation. The UK has an extensive automatic camera system that should theoretically catch unlicensed drivers, but the driver avoided detection by driving properly insured and inspected vehicles and not being involved in major accidents or stops.
In the UK, the penalty for driving without a license does not depend on how long the person drove without a valid license. In Finland, over a thousand people are convicted annually for driving without a license, according to police board calculations. Over half of those convicted receive fines, and about a third receive prison sentences, of which about a third are suspended.
The average fine for driving without a license in Finland is 35 day-fines, totaling just over 300 euros. Lack of a driving license is one of the most common background risks in fatal accidents. In Halmstad, Sweden, police stopped a 43-year-old man earlier this year and discovered he lacked the right to drive.
The man was alone in the car and under police observation the whole time, ruling out that someone else was driving. He admitted to the offense in both police interrogation and court. According to Hallandsposten, when asked why he drove without a license, the man described it as a necessity, giving the simplest answer.
During the stop, a police officer noticed a sword-like object in the seat pocket behind the passenger seat. The man said he had the sword there because it was the safest place for it to stay put while he was moving. He considered it a collector's item that cannot cut, so he thought it should not be criminal to possess.
Halmstad District Court convicted him of aggravated unlawful driving and violation of the knife law, but did not consider the knife crime as aggravated because the sword is old and no evidence of a sharp edge was presented. The court sentenced him to two months in prison, partly due to previous similar offenses. In another case, a 28-year-old man from Eslöv was driving in Hässleholm and was checked by a police patrol after exiting his car.
He initially told the patrol he had a license for a manual car, but when confronted with police information, he changed his statement, saying he never said that. During the trial, he claimed it was not him driving but a colleague whose surname he no longer remembered. The district court found that the police report showed he was alone in the car and there was no reason to question the police's account.
The court considered his claim about another driver as an obvious after-the-fact construction and disregarded it. He was convicted of unlawful driving and fined 2100 SEK in day fines plus 1000 SEK to the crime victim fund. Theft, vandalism, and drug offenses were also reported.
In Sörby, a caller reported a person walking around trying to get into cars. Police responded and found a man in his 20s matching the description. Two cars with smashed windows were found at the scene.
The man was suspected of two counts of theft through burglary and minor drug offense. In Navestad, Norrköping, a 45-year-old man was arrested after stealing a bag from a car and hitting the car's owner who tried to stop him. Police were called to Silverringen at 12:45 after a man allegedly smashed a car window and stole a bag.
The car owner confronted the man and was hit. The man is suspected of theft and assault. In Gällivare, a man in his 40s was detained on suspicion of multiple cases of unlawful threats and one case of vandalism, according to prosecutor Otto Neppelberg.
The man believes his relatives are persecuting and threatening him. The crimes occurred between unspecified dates.