Judges have failed to impose higher sentences for dangerous driving causing death or serious injury, despite being given the power to do so more than two decades ago. Judges have failed to impose higher sentences for dangerous driving causing death or serious injury, despite being given the power to do so more than two decades ago. In these cases, sentences varied from being fully suspended to one year in prison. "Above all, dangerous driving is an attack on how society works in an important and moral sphere of human activity: modern transport. In 2016 in Cork city, 15pc of all orders in dangerous driving cases were to jail the accused, while none of the 115 orders made by courts in Kerry in connection with the same offence led to imprisonment.

Source: Irish Independent January 05, 2018 02:26 UTC