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Nobody will ever get convicted of such a law, because you need to prove that the driving met the legal definition of 'dangerous,' and you hardly ever can.
I'd rather all offences of causing injury or death by careless or dangerous driving were removed from the statute books, and instead were dealt with as straight cases of assault/gbh/manslaughter/murder etc.
I had some wanker in a BMW 7 series minicab this morning. lights go green. There had been a pedestrian injured - by whom or what I don't know - and the traffic was stationary. But the guy in the BMW took umbrage at the van in front not proceeding on the green, so proceeded to pull out (by now the lights were red again) drive in to the back of my bike and blast his horn. Needless to say I wasn't the only one telling him to go fuck himself.