Grant Bell was driving along with some friends when they saw a car coming
towards them on the other side of the road.
What they did not see until too late were
two other cars racing alongside it – with no lights and on the wrong side.
In many hundreds of cases where death results from irresponsible behavior at
the wheel of a car
When the weapon is a car, however, these horrible acts of violence
go virtually unpunished.
Because recklessness is difficult to prove in court, many cases of causing
death by reckless driving are charged simply as “careless driving,” for which the
maximum fine is £1,000.
Even on those increasingly rare occasions when the correct
charge is brought, sentences are frequently derisory.