Didier Drogba avoids driving ban for using French insurance
12 April 2012
Chelsea footballer Didier Drogba today escaped a ban after admitting driving his Mercedes with no valid licence or insurance.
Drogba, 31, said he thought his French insurance policy covered him to drive in England.
He pleaded guilty to driving without insurance last November after he was stopped by police on the A3 in Hook, Surrey. He also pleaded guilty to driving without a valid licence at Kingston magistrates' court. The £115,000-a-week star was fined £560.
When he moved to the UK in 2004 he had an international licence as well as his Ivory Coast licence, but the international licence had expired.
"I believed that there was no reason to be worried about driving because I was insured," he said.
