Penalties For Dangerous Driving

EDM number 201 in 1998-99, proposed by Norman Baker on 19/01/1999.

That this House notes with concern that the average penalty for causing death by dangerous driving is 33.7 months, whereas the average penalties for manslaughter and murder are 62.0 months and life imprisonment respectively; further notes the criteria for being charged with dangerous driving is considered by many to be too high, and as a consequence many motorists guilty of serious motoring offences are only charged with driving without due care and attention; and calls on the Government urgently to review the level of penalties for causing death by dangerous driving, and to introduce a new offence covering the ground between driving without due care and attention and causing death by dangerous driving.

This motion has been signed by a total of 46 MPs.