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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

I entirely agree. The courts should have at their disposal a proper range of offences and penalties. There is clear consensus among everybody except the lawyers that there is a major gap between imprisonment for causing death by dangerous driving and the minor traffic offences—except, of course, in the case of drink driving. There is a great gap in the middle as regards what the courts can do. It is important that they have available a range of offences and penalties—what the courts do is down to them—that properly recognise the different types of accident and levels of culpability, and that delivers to the public a sense that justice will be done if their loved ones are involved in an accident.