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Road Safety Bill [HL]

My Lords, I had not intended to speak to this group of amendments. However, Amendment No. 30 is an extension of the offence in Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988. A police accident investigator who is investigating three fatal accidents involving failure to stop has stated in an e-mail to me:"““My concern is that s3A takes no account of Failing to Stop fatalities. If you kill someone as a result of driving without due care whilst over the drink drive limit if you evade police until you sober up you can only be done for Without Due Care and Failing to Stop. If you can evade police for six months you’ve nothing to worry about as the Statutory Time Limit will have passed for summary offences and you’ll go scott free.""““If you had the choice between waiting around for the police to arrest you for an offence carrying 14 years imprisonment and running off with every chance of evading serious punishment, what would you do?""““Why not a S3B?—Causing Death by WDC and failing to stop””." I propose that we add the words ““failing to stop”” as an amendment to Section 3A.