Sentences with phrase «careless driving also»

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The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with jail sentences of at least seven years; ● a combination of these features of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.

The organisation also believes that cyclists and pedestrians are regularly being failed by the existing laws on careless and dangerous driving, with only 27 % of drivers convicted of death by careless driving sent to prison, for sentences on average of only 14 months.

Where a driver violates the distracted driving law and endangers the lives of others as a result, that driver may also be charged with careless driving under Section 130 of the

Careless driving is also sometimes referred to as «reckless driving» and is an offence under Section 130 of Ontario's Highway Traffic Act («HTA»).

Careless driving of a snowmobile is also a specific offence.

Careless or reckless driving, or driving when in a hurry, also contributed to 15 per cent of deaths.

28 Globocki also stands for the principle that «where an accident has occurred, the fact that serious injury or death has resulted is not, except in unusual cases, relevant to an assessment of whether there has been a departure from the standard of care which would justify a finding of careless driving.

I also handle road traffic cases, representing drivers facing prosecution for all types of offence, from speeding right up to causing death by careless or dangerous driving.

Three Kentucky careless driving points will also be assessed on your record, provided you have been convicted of such offense.

About 3,300 tickets were also issued for careless driving.

A large portion of the tickets were also issues for careless driving and running a red light.

More than 60,000 of these violations were for speeding with a large number also for running red lights and careless driving.

Over 6,600 drivers were also ticketed for careless driving, which is the leading cause of traffic accidents in the state.

Another 5,656 were for careless driving and 5,490 were also handed out by the red light cameras.