If I were an undercover agent with fake ID, I think I'd be inclined to make sure I had one that said I was old enough to drive!* More seriously, my experience of green lanes is that they are pretty narrow - certainly not guaranteed to take a Land Rover Defender. My neighbour has one (why?) and it's enormous. I'd imagine his best bet by far would be to dump the car and run for it in a likely place.
*Before someone points out that people can drive at 16 in the UK if they receive the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance, I think that if the character's fake ID** stated this, the OP would have mentioned it, and the police might have spotted that his ability to walk was not so severely impaired as to endanger his life if he tried/he had no feet/was legally blind.
**Presumably passport/birth certificate. The former might mention it, but not the latter. Unless it was a fake driving licence that claimed he had no feet.
I feel obliged to point out that higher rate mobility component DLA is not limited to that very narrow set of circumstances - most people receiving it are not "endangering their life" by attempting to walk. One of the criteria is "unable to walk without severe discomfort, or at risk of endangering your life or causing deterioration in your health by making the effort to walk" which covers a lot of completely invisible conditions, and so the police would not necessarily spot anything at all. Were this relevant.
Well, I was going from the example categories listed on direct.gov.uk. I know there are plenty of other reasons to claim the higher rate, and many/most won't be visible on casual inspection, but if one is claiming to be allowed to drive at age 16 by reasons of e.g. severe epilepsy, that's also not going to be convincing.
Though I think that by the time one is fleeing from the police in a vehicle, the fact that ID one doesn't have on one says 16 is going to be the least of one's problems.
Yes, that's where I got the fuller sentence from. My point is that many people think disabled to the point of qualifying for DLA/early licence must mean no feet, no legs, etc. and forget about other physical conditions that limit mobility - and I don't just mean conditions like epilepsy (which normally only qualifies for lower rate mobility DLA, incidentally, so no debate about licence eligibility there). A 16 year old with a licence could well have e.g. a neurological condition that means severe discomfort when walking but not an actual inability to walk, meaning that running away from the police is possible but will be extremely painful. Since being shot never seems to slow a pursuit in fiction, this might not be much of an issue... *g*
Entirely agree that the ID part is the least of the character's problems, though. :)
1. No driving licence.
2. NO INSURANCE.
They really throw the book at you for that. And yes, there are helicopters and police motorbikes in that area, and this is not an unknown situation.
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*Before someone points out that people can drive at 16 in the UK if they receive the mobility component of the Disability Living Allowance, I think that if the character's fake ID** stated this, the OP would have mentioned it, and the police might have spotted that his ability to walk was not so severely impaired as to endanger his life if he tried/he had no feet/was legally blind.
**Presumably passport/birth certificate. The former might mention it, but not the latter. Unless it was a fake driving licence that claimed he had no feet.
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Though I think that by the time one is fleeing from the police in a vehicle, the fact that ID one doesn't have on one says 16 is going to be the least of one's problems.
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Entirely agree that the ID part is the least of the character's problems, though. :)
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