Dangerous Driving: Sentencing
(asked on 7th September 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, whether he has taken recent steps to review sentencing policy for dangerous driving.
This question was answered on 14th September 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. We will legislate as soon as possible.