I'd imagine a lot of you have been hearing or reading about this story today:
BBC NEWS | UK | Killer drivers could avoid jail
It's bizarre. The offence of causing death by careless driving was introduced by the Road Safety Act 2006 (received assent Nov 06), but this particular part of that Act has NOT been brought into force yet.
That means that, at the moment, NO ONE has been sent to prison for it. And no one will be for a while, as it's still not in force. So this "news" story amounts to "people will not be sent to prison for something they're already not sent to prison for".
Absurd.
Reading between the lines, what this is is the government saying "Right, we're FINALLY going to bring this offence in, 1.5 years after we invented it, and this is the best way to introduce it to the public. Pay attention, plebs, you could be going to prison".
I didn't think they've had the balls to bring this offence in. If they're robbing it of it's teeth already, then perhaps they have half ball measures, as it were.
Sorry, that's my little rant. I deal with such offences on a day to day basis, and this story makes little sense to me. But for what it's worth, I think the report has got it right-ish.


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