He didn't have a license, and his learner's permit expired in September.
The latter can found some problems when the type of required assistance of his learner doesn't belong to his skills.
"He'd just gotten his learner's permit, and I let him drive some of the way to Atlantic City," she said.
He then realized that the neighbor was a City Council member and used his learner's permit to drive black voters to the polls to vote against him.
"I am an old-fashioned man who likes his car to be just that, a car," he wrote with authority, having had his learner's permit for more than a year.
Three years later, having turned 15 and acquired his learner's permit, he was tooling around Lexington, Neb., his nervous mother regularly stomping an imaginary brake pedal on the passenger-side floor as a sign that he should slow down.
Prosecutors also charged his parents, Patricia and Aaditia Beer, with allowing him to drive on his learner's permit, which prohibited him from driving at the early hour of the crash.
The authorities said the car's driver, Gabriel S. Parrott, 22, of Arverne, Queens, was charged with violating the terms of his learner's permit and driving with an obstructed view.
That certainly sounds like a young man who still does not have a driver's license (Gaven recently obtained his learner's permit), but does "have soccer in him," as Bradley likes to say of the talented youngsters he has helped nurture.
My son has his learner's permit and is very anxious to get his license.
