Felix.

Did I say that!!

There is no such thing as death by careless driving (i think). If it is proven in a court of law that you have driven dangerously in your example, then it would be death by dangerous. As i have not been involved with the case in the paper/media I can only assume that it was more of a careless drive than a dangerous one. It is a very fine line between them and as i go on to say that in my opinion the law really needs to change to take account of this.

About a year ago a TWOC'd car with a moron driving hit a little girl and killed her. The driver had a v colourfull record for such offences but got a fairly light sentence. As in this case there was a public outcry as there would appear to be a gap in the law.

These points do need changing and new laws/sentences passed to stop such idiots getting behind the wheel again.

Brendan Hughes

Some sentencing went up at the end of last year.

Looks like it didn't help in this case though