Lord Woolf CJ reaffirmed that the test for dangerous driving was an objective one: ‘Section 2A sets out a wholly objective test. The concept of what is obvious to a careful driver places the question of what constitutes dangerous driving within the province of the jury. It is the jury who should set the standard as to what is or what is not dangerous driving.’
Judges:
Lord Woolf CJ
Citations:
[2001] EWCA Crim 780, [2001] 2 Cr App R 2
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Bannister, Regina v CACD 28-Jul-2009
The defendant appealed his conviction for dangerous driving. As a police officer he had driven at over 110 mph on a motorway in the wet, lost control and crashed. He said that the fact that he had undertaken the police advanced drivers’ course . .
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Crime, Road Traffic
Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.368300