Kailash Chander, 79, is alleged to have caused the deaths of Rowan Fitzgerald and 76 - year - old Dora
Hancox by dangerous driving in Coventry in October 2015.
Kailash Chander is alleged to have caused the deaths of Catholic schoolboy Rowan Fitzgerald and 76 - year - old Dora Hancox
by dangerous driving in Coventry in October 2015.
Chander, from Leamington Spa, also faces two counts of causing serious
injury by dangerous driving, while bus operator Midland Red (South) Ltd has been charged with two health and safety offences.
Causing death
by dangerous driving carries a penalty of one to 14 years in prison, causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving carries a penalty of up to five years in prison.
If there are no others, it will normally fall within the category of offences of causing death
by dangerous driving which lack any additional aggravating features.
Chander, from Leamington Spa, also faces two counts of causing serious
injury by dangerous driving, while bus operator Midland Red (South) Ltd has already admitted two health and safety breaches.
Bus driver Kailash Chander, 79, appeared in court last week charged with causing the deaths of Catholic schoolboy Rowan Fitzgerald and 76 - year - old Dora
Hancox by dangerous driving.
The League One side are no strangers to controversy having signed Lee Hughes back in 2007 after the striker was released from prison for
death by dangerous driving.
The firm's solicitor entered guilty pleas to both charges at Coventry Magistrates» Court a week after 79 - year - old bus driver Kailash Chander appeared before JPs charged with causing death
by dangerous driving.
Except, it seems, in Oldham, who have something of a history of signing players who have served time in prison, having also picked up Lee Hughes in 2007, after he was convicted of causing death
by dangerous driving.
I think we should give justice to the small number of pedestrians killed each year by dangerous cycling by applying the same or similar penalties to that of causing death
by dangerous driving and causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.
Death
by dangerous driving is an extremely serious offence which often results in a lengthy custodial sentence.
Tuckers Solicitors lawyers provide legal advice and legal representation to clients facing prosecution for death
by dangerous driving.
The Sentencing Guidelines Council has released its definitive guidelines to tackle four offences: causing death
by dangerous driving; causing death by careless driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs; causing death by careless driving; causing death by driving unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured drivers.
RAC Foundation has also responded to the sentencing of the lorry driver for causing death
by dangerous driving.
Because the driver had parked, he could not be charged with Causing Death
by Dangerous Driving.
This case details how the guideline case of R v Cooksley [2003] EWCA Crim 996, [2003] 3 All ER 40 should be applied to cases of causing death
by dangerous driving, or driving while under the influence of drink or drugs, given that the statutory maximums for those offences have now been increased.
My role in the criminal field is to assist Barristers and / or Solicitors where Defendants have been charged with a number of offences, which can range from Death
by Dangerous Driving to Careless Driving.
Families who have lost loved ones through murder, manslaughter or death
by dangerous driving will be given an opportunity to have their views heard in the courtroom from October.