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Fatal accident due to alcohol or reckless driving? Then life sentence possible in UK

People who cause serious injury through irresponsible behavior can also expect higher penalties from then on.

Doing justice to serious crimes

“Too many lives have been lost due to reckless driving, families have been destroyed,” Attorney General Dominic Raab said of the motivation behind the bill. With the new law, the government says it wants to ensure that ‘punishments do justice to the seriousness of the crimes’.

At present, such behavior carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.


The maximum penalty for wrongful death is life. “It is difficult to defend that someone who kills another person with a car cannot receive the same punishment,” said the director of the RAC Foundation, an organization that conducts research into road safety, among other things. against the BBC.


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