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Red Herring · 22-10-14, 08:32 AM

That's a bit like asking if you shot a burglar in your house in the middle of the night should you be charged with murder?

There are many ways that driving can be dangerous without involving excess or inappropriate speed. You need to look objectively at all of the circumstances, not just a few of them. For example if the scenario you gave involved a small child running along the pavement on their own and there was an ice cream van parked on the opposite side of the road how many people on here would consider it dangerous to carry on past without making some allowance for the possibility that the child might run out?

Dangerous driving is described thus - "if the driving falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver, and it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous".

So it's not a black and white answer.

22-10-14, 08:32 AM	#3
Red Herring Member Mega Poster Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 2,708	Re: One for the org trafpol That's a bit like asking if you shot a burglar in your house in the middle of the night should you be charged with murder? There are many ways that driving can be dangerous without involving excess or inappropriate speed. You need to look objectively at all of the circumstances, not just a few of them. For example if the scenario you gave involved a small child running along the pavement on their own and there was an ice cream van parked on the opposite side of the road how many people on here would consider it dangerous to carry on past without making some allowance for the possibility that the child might run out? Dangerous driving is described thus - "if the driving falls far below what would be expected of a competent and careful driver, and it would be obvious to a competent and careful driver that driving in that way would be dangerous". So it's not a black and white answer.