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The Crown Prosecution Service has outlined measures for tougher sentencing of drivers who cause fatalities on Britain's roads.
The changes - due to take effect in September 2007 - will modify the boundaries between three charges: manslaughter, causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving. The aim is to ensure more convictions and longer jail terms for the worst offenders.
A manslaughter conviction could result in a life sentence, while a conviction for causing death by dangerous driving could carry a maximum sentence of five years in jail. The revised death by dangerous driving charge will include drivers who cause accidents while talking on a mobile phone, tailgating, overtaking on the inside, jumping a red light, pulling out from a side road or even tuning a radio. It may also, subject to further consultation, include speeding and driving in an inappropriate manner for road conditions.
In cases of lesser lapses of concentration or errors of judgement, rather than outright risk-taking, the charge of causing death by careless driving, also revised, can be applied.
The Crown Prosecution Service has outlined measures for tougher sentencing of drivers who cause fatalities on Britain's roads.
The changes - due to take effect in September 2007 - will modify the boundaries between three charges: manslaughter, causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving. The aim is to ensure more convictions and longer jail terms for the worst offenders.
A manslaughter conviction could result in a life sentence, while a conviction for causing death by dangerous driving could carry a maximum sentence of five years in jail. The revised death by dangerous driving charge will include drivers who cause accidents while talking on a mobile phone, tailgating, overtaking on the inside, jumping a red light, pulling out from a side road or even tuning a radio. It may also, subject to further consultation, include speeding and driving in an inappropriate manner for road conditions.
In cases of lesser lapses of concentration or errors of judgement, rather than outright risk-taking, the charge of causing death by careless driving, also revised, can be applied.
