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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

Of course, and it needed to be prosecuted with the force of the law. Having read the case, a charge of dangerous driving should have been seriously considered. As I recall, the driver was unlicensed, and the measure that we support to tackle the problem of unlicensed drivers would do the job. However, it is not always about dealing with accidents that cause death. We also need to deal with accidents in which there are serious or relatively minor injuries. There is no excuse whatever for any driver who is involved in an accident simply to drive away. There are times when the law provides a perverse incentive to do so. If someone has drunk too much, has a minor accident and drives away, he is probably slightly less likely to be disqualified for a year than if he stops and is breathalysed. That cannot be sensible. There is no excuse for driving away from the scene of an accident. We also need to change the rules under which the DVLA operates when false addresses are used. I had a case in my constituency recently of a family barraged with legal notices because the previous owners of their house had not changed the address on their driving licences. They did that entirely deliberately so that they could use false information to commit offences with impunity. Yet the DVLA is not allowed under current rules to amend its records without written notification from the licence holder. If I move house, commit offences everywhere and leave the people who bought my house to pick up the problems that that causes—police and bailiffs knocking on the door, and so forth—the only person who can get the details changed is me, and since I am the offender I am hardly likely to do that. I hope that we can also tackle that problem.