The appellant pleaded guilty to causing serious injury by dangerous driving and failing to stop and report an accident, along with document offences. He was sentenced to 40 months’ imprisonment for the driving with 4 months concurrent for failing to stop and report. The appellant struck the complainant on the…
A guilty plea entered six weeks before trial was afforded 15% credit and a sentence of 20 months’ imprisonment was imposed for an offence of causing serious injury by dangerous driving. Concurrent sentences were imposed for dangerous driving and driving with excess alcohol. The dangerous driving took place over a…
A sentence of one year and 8 months was appropriate for causing serious injury by dangerous driving on a late guilty plea on the basis that the applicant had smoked cannabis the night before driving, and he did not know whether the drug or tiredness had affected his driving at…
The appellant was sentenced to 28 months’ imprisonment for causing serious injury by dangerous driving, with no separate penalty for driving whilst unfit through drugs, and he was disqualified for 50 months. The appellant overtook a cyclist on a blind bend colliding with a motorcycle travelling in the opposite direction….
The appellant drove his McClaren sports car dangerously crushing into a traffic light which fell on a pedestrian causing serious injury. His sentence of 20 months’ imprisonment was reduced to 12 months by the Court of Appeal, with a consecutive sentence of 2 months for failing to stop. The disqualification…