Winseer:
I’d like to see an end to aggressive truckers up my arse through roadworks,
In which case wouldn’t we expect to see the 14 year sentence for causing death by dangerous/careless extended to cover just dangerous driving regardless and then enforced and used.When it’s more likely that the law will selectively just enforce the often unrealistic speed regime using cameras and unmarked vehicles than go for tailgaters etc.
Or the whole offence changed to dangerous use of the public highway so that it also covers cyclists.Bearing in mind that GBH seems like the wrong charge even in that cases let alone the silly lenient sentence applied in that example.
As opposed to the worst of all worlds situation of effectively applying the type of penalties on drivers usually imposed for criminals who seriously wound or kill with intent.Possibly in the case of someone who’s just the victim of circumstance in the case of a simple road ‘accident’ that unfortunately results in a fatality.That situation obviously being more likely on roads increasingly populated by cyclists and urban micro cars with little crash resistance,being used in high speed road situations.With the agenda already obviously being loaded and corrupted in that regard by the emotive term ‘drivers who kill’ which infers intent.When prevention is better than draconian unrepresentative penalty regime.In which case the present powers of 14 years max,also then applied to all dangerous highway use offences regardless,not just those resulting in fatality,as opposed to simple accident resulting in fatality,would be a realistic and fairer solution.