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. One crashed into him and he was killed on spot. The driver of that car fled the scene. Normally the penalty for such a commission is 240 hours’ community service and a five-year driving ban.
In many hundreds of cases where death results from irresponsible behavior at the wheel of a car, the blame is much less severe than killing with any other weapon-gun ,knife or even bare hands in which case the killer would have been charged with and convicted of murder or manslaughter. And the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. When the weapon is a car, however, these horrible acts of violence go virtually unpunished.
Because recklessness is difficult to proven 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 increasing rare occasions when the correct charge is brought, sentences are frequently derisory. Of the 111 drivers sentenced to prison in England last 15 year for causing death or bodily harm by reckless driving, more than half received sentences of less than a year. Often the only penalty is a normal fine-rarely more than £450 and a driving ban.
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. One crashed into him and he was killed on spot. The driver of that car fled the scene. Normally the penalty for such a commission is 240 hours’ community service and a five-year driving ban.In many hundreds of cases where death results from irresponsible behavior at the wheel of a car, the blame is much less severe than killing with any other weapon-gun ,knife or even bare hands in which case the killer would have been charged with and convicted of murder or manslaughter. And the maximum penalty is life imprisonment. When the weapon is a car, however, these horrible acts of violence go virtually unpunished.Because recklessness is difficult to proven 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 increasing rare occasions when the correct charge is brought, sentences are frequently derisory. Of the 111 drivers sentenced to prison in England last 15 year for causing death or bodily harm by reckless driving, more than half received sentences of less than a year. Often the only penalty is a normal fine-rarely more than £450 and a driving ban.
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