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Errr, no.
In the House of Lords case of Andrews v DPP ([1937] A.C. 576), Lord Atkin stated that there was an obvious difference in the law of manslaughter between doing an unlawful act and doing a lawful act with a degree of carelessness that the Legislature makes criminal. Thus an act that is otherwise lawful, such as driving a vehicle, does not become an unlawful act for these purposes if it contravenes the criminal law merely by the manner of its execution. Hence, driving carelessly or driving dangerously do not, on their own, amount to unlawful acts for the purpose of unlawful act manslaughter.