Clause 21 - Causing death by driving: unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured drivers
Road Safety Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
Stephen Ladyman (Minister of State, Department for Transport; South Thanet, Labour)
Indeed, a very small number of cases.
I shall conclude with this remark, in the hope that I will finally convince the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland. It clearly cannot follow that causation always involves carelessness. If it did, anybody who was prosecuted for careless driving would always be found guilty, because we would always be able to demonstrate that an accident happened. The hon. Gentleman seems to take the view that, because an accident happened, somebody must have been careless. That clearly is not the case.
This is a specific clause to deal with the small number of cases where the individual is involved in such a way that the accident could not possibly have happened—
Mr. Carmichaelrose—