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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

It is the principle of the word ““careless”” that is the problem. If the Government can define in detail a form of words with which we are comfortable we are happy to look at their proposals. Traditionally, there has been an acceptance in British law of the dividing line between carelessness and dangerousness. The way in which that dividing line operates is not satisfactory, as it is handled differently by the courts and the Crown Prosecution Service. I therefore have reservations about ““careless”” and ““inconsiderate””, particularly the latter word, which is very loose indeed.