And in R. v. Belisle [1992] Y.J. No. 119, the Court expressed that principle in this way: ``... in law the Court must focus on the elements alleged to constitute careless driving, and not on the consequences of the driving, regardless of how serious or tragic
the consequences of Careless Driving may be.»
I quoted with fairly obvious approval the Court
of Appeal in AG Ref 24
of 1994 saying «[t] his court is concerned primarily with the criminality...»; and R v Stokes [1997] EWCA Crim 1885, where the Court
of Appeal said the judge was «entirely justified in taking into account the
consequences of the bad
driving», while making the point that was a case
of dangerous, not
careless,
driving.