Causing death by dangerous driving is a statutory offence in England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as Hong Kong.
In R v Richardson[9] the Court of Appeal reassessed the starting point set out in R v Cooksley taking into consideration the increase in the maximum penalty.
The relevant starting points identified in Cooksley should be reassessed as follows: When a court disqualifies a person on conviction for causing death by dangerous driving, it must order an extended retest.
Part I of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 originally provided that a person convicted of this offence was liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.
Causing death by driving while disqualified was split off as a separate offence by the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 with a much higher maximum sentence.
Should any of the following "Circumstances of aggravation" be proven, in a trial for dangerous driving occasioning death, it is possible for the driver to receive a prison sentence of up to and including 20 years: If a defendant is tried in District Court for dangerous driving occasioning death, but none of the circumstances of aggravation can be proven, the maximum imprisonment is 10 years.
The basic offence, "Dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death", has a maximum penalty of 14 years' imprisonment.
If the driver is convicted of failing to stop for police, criminal negligence, street racing, a hit and run or drunk-driving, in addition to dangerous driving, and a death resulted, the maximum penalty is life imprisonment.
Traffic violations that occur in Michigan and New York for vehicular homicide are counted, for licence suspension purposes, on a person's Ontario driving record.