Consultation on a review of road traffic offences involving bad driving

This consultation is now closed.

Bad driving is an area of particular concern to the public, and the government shares these concerns. The government believes that it is vital to ensure the criminal law is fully effective in addressing bad driving and its all too often appalling consequences.

This consultation follows a wide-ranging review of the existing criminal law concerning bad driving, during which, a range of interested parties including the police, judges and road safety groups were consulted.

The consultation puts forward a radical set of proposals to create a sensible and effective framework of offences to deal with bad driving and to help create safer roads for everyone.

The original consulation and a summary of the responses received, including proposals for next steps, are published below.

Date: Thu Oct 20 10:48:10 BST 2005

• A summary of the responses to the Road Traffic Offenses consultation and proposals for next steps (PDF file - 200kb)
• Consultation on Review of Road Traffic Offences involving Bad Driving (PDF file - 262kb)

  The paper puts forward a radical set of proposals to create a sensible and effective framework of offences to deal with bad driving and to help create safer roads for everyone.

• Code of Practice on Home Office consultations (PDF file - 11kb)

  This consultation follows the Code of Practice on Consultation the criteria for which are set below.

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