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the more serious charge just seems a bit too harsh for the poor old motorist bloke, so just go with the lesser charge
Every time this. Very often see drivers getting off on causing death by dangerous driving and instead getting a careless driving charge resulting in a slapped wrist.
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Might the CPS have offered to drop the more serious charge if he admitted (therefore avoiding a trial by jury) the lesser one?
PhilDAS
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IANAL but I'm struggling to see how this incident can lead to a charge of dangerous driving, but not causing injury by dangerous driving. Surely serious injury occurred, and it was a direct result of dangerous driving? Or does the law work in some perverse-reverse logic whereby the sentence for the more serious charge just seems a bit too harsh for the poor old motorist bloke, so just go with the lesser charge? Or are broken bones, cracked ribs and concussion not serious injury??