Dangerous Driving: Sentencing
(asked on 27th January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make each category of careless and inconsiderate driving an offence that carries a custodial sentence.
This question was answered on 30th January 2020
The government has committed to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs to life imprisonment, and create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving as soon as possible.