For experienced legal counsel that can help you properly defend yourself against
careless driving resulting in injury or death charges, turn to Jurdem, LLC, in Boulder.
A conviction for
careless driving resulting in serious injury or death carries potentially serious consequences.
The proposed legislation includes the offence of
careless driving resulting in death or bodily harm with a maximum fine of $ 50,000.00, license suspension, and imprisonment.
Not exact matches
The bill's sponsors, State Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh and Senator Daniel Squadron, say the legislation sends the clear message that
careless driving is unacceptable and can have deadly
results.
If a person's negligent
driving behavior or their
careless actions
results in death or personal injury to another person, the driver who caused the injury or death is to be held accountable.
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.
As a
result, the driver of the truck was reportedly arrested on suspicion of
driving while intoxicated,
careless driving, and violating the state's open container law.
«Whether someone is prosecuted for
careless or dangerous
driving is often something of a lottery, as are the
resulting sentences, leaving thousands of victims and their relatives feeling massively let down by the justice system's failure to reflect the seriousness of bad
driving,» he said.
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
Unfortunately because they are such large vehicles, one small error or moment of
careless driving can
result in numerous injuries or fatalities.
At best,
careless driving may cost you a fine or time in prison and, at worst, it may
result in serious injury or loss of life.
Traffic violations that
result to excessive points on your
driving record, including speeding,
careless driving, toll violations, etc..
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.
Commercial trucking accidents can
result from driver distraction, driver fatigue, improperly secured load, excessive speed,
careless or reckless
driving, and driver intoxication.
As a
result of difficulties proving the case and violations of the accused's rights advanced by the defence, the case resolved on a plea to
careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act, which allowed the accused to keep his driver's licence and avoid a criminal record.
As to Firth's view that negligence should be dealt with by the civil law only, and that it is anomalous that
careless driving should be a criminal offence, imagine the following situation: people with guns were negligently firing them in what were consistently referred to as accidents, and roughly 10 people a day were being killed as a
result.
[23 V.S.A. § § 4116 and 4116a] Serious traffic violations may include speeding,
driving in a
careless and negligent or reckless manner, changing lanes improperly, following another vehicle too closely, and violating traffic control laws in connection with an accident
resulting in death.
Careless driving points in Maryland that number 12 or more, for example, will
result in a revoked drivers license.
These days the quantity of accidents is growing as a
result of
careless driving and most of the time teenagers are involved in such cases.
Florida ranked # 1 in the number of deaths of pedestrians or bicyclists
resulting from
careless driving.
Crimes including
careless driving, reckless
driving, manslaughter, abuse
resulting to injuries and murder can be lodged against the person.