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From May there's been talk of a new set of driving law to try and improve the safety of roads within the UK. Cars kill more young people in the UK than anything else, and around twenty five million children are killed across the world every year by traffic. In line with their more hard-line approach to solving problems, the Coalition Government proposes to impose stricter penalties on drivers in order to try and improve things.
The initiative mainly intends to extend police powers. At the moment even minor motoring offences where the culprit is clearly in the wrong often go through a costly and time consuming court process in order to receive a standard sentence. With the new legislation Police can impose an on the spot fine and penalty points to the person caught. There is currently a fixed penalty rate of 60, but if the new measures are used they'll involve a range of fines between 80 and 100.
How it hopes to do this is fairly straightforward. If careless merging, dangerous overtaking or tailgating receive an instant punishment and hefty fine there should be more incentive to make sure you drive carefully. In addition to this it removes some of the strain from courts that would otherwise have to routinely deal with clear-cut cases of driver negligence, and so cost a lot of time and money to the legal system
When things do get to court there will also be harsher penalties. The government have proposed that car seizure should be more of a routine punishment when the offence warrants, and is a way of administering swift justice to people that have proven they are not responsible enough to own a car. Again, criticism falls on whether this is another way of money making at the expense of motorists, especially as records show general standards of road safety to be consistently improving in England over recent years.
This does not mean that the boundaries between dangerous and careless driving have been blurred or changed. Each case will be treated separately. It simply means harsher penalties all-round, but also more education for drivers that have committed offences, which you would hope is where the money from fines is going.
The initiative mainly intends to extend police powers. At the moment even minor motoring offences where the culprit is clearly in the wrong often go through a costly and time consuming court process in order to receive a standard sentence. With the new legislation Police can impose an on the spot fine and penalty points to the person caught. There is currently a fixed penalty rate of 60, but if the new measures are used they'll involve a range of fines between 80 and 100.
How it hopes to do this is fairly straightforward. If careless merging, dangerous overtaking or tailgating receive an instant punishment and hefty fine there should be more incentive to make sure you drive carefully. In addition to this it removes some of the strain from courts that would otherwise have to routinely deal with clear-cut cases of driver negligence, and so cost a lot of time and money to the legal system
When things do get to court there will also be harsher penalties. The government have proposed that car seizure should be more of a routine punishment when the offence warrants, and is a way of administering swift justice to people that have proven they are not responsible enough to own a car. Again, criticism falls on whether this is another way of money making at the expense of motorists, especially as records show general standards of road safety to be consistently improving in England over recent years.
This does not mean that the boundaries between dangerous and careless driving have been blurred or changed. Each case will be treated separately. It simply means harsher penalties all-round, but also more education for drivers that have committed offences, which you would hope is where the money from fines is going.
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