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This isn’t cycle campaigning specifically but some people may be interested in this campaign for tougher sentences for drivers who kill that seems to have been launched today:
http://www.stopdangerousdrivers.com
Reported in the Telegraph but not elsewhere it seems. The spirit of the campaign I support, but I don’t think they have entirely thought things through.
One of their aims is to do away with the offence of causing death by careless driving and get all fatal incidents treated as the more serious offence of causing death by dangerous driving. Not sure that would be a good idea as you need to ensure that the culpability of an offender is properly reflected in the charge – momentary inattention causing death is not the same as driving like a lunatic while high/drunk while banned without insurance over a long distance causing widespread carnage, but I’m all for cases being treated more seriously. Good luck to em.