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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

I am afraid that I simply do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. Sometimes on the road people make snap judgments that are wrong and that have devastating consequences. There is no intent to kill. There may have been misjudgment—with greater experience, they might have avoided that misjudgment—but that does not make them criminals who deserve a long prison sentence. We must make suitable provision in law. There are cases in which people slip through the net, and in such cases the penalty should probably have been stronger. However, I am profoundly uncomfortable with the introduction of a penalty that is so wide-ranging that it drags people who have committed an offence in the circumstances that I have just described into the net of a long prison sentence.