Alex Cunningham
Labour, Stockton North
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will make each category of careless and inconsiderate driving an offence that carries a custodial sentence.
Chris Philp
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice, Minister of State (London)
The government has committed to increase the maximum penalty for causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink or drugs to life imprisonment, and create a new offence of causing serious injury by careless driving as soon as possible.
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