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Road Safety Bill [Lords]

I am listening very carefully, and the hon. Gentleman says that the difficulty of assembling evidence was the reason for sentence imposed in that case. If the motor cyclist was charged with causing death by careless driving, given the difficulties with the evidence and proving the speed and so forth, he would not be given a prison sentence, because the judge would not consider that he had the necessary evidence in front of him. The danger is that we may hold out the promise of something that simply will not happen. If the evidence had existed, we would not need the new charge, because the motor cyclist could have been convicted of dangerous driving.