Justice Secretary Jack Straw proposes increasing the maximum jail term for dangerous driving to five years.

A policeman from Newcastle has been convicted of causing death by dangerous driving after hitting a 16 year old girl who walked into the road in front of him. The policeman was doing 94mph in a 30mph limit without his blue lights and sirens, hence the dangerous driving charge, but he was on duty and accelerating

Labour peer sentenced to 12 weeks for dangerous driving after admitting texting while driving on motorway The Labour peer Lord Ahmed was today jailed for 12 weeks for dangerous driving after admitting he was texting while driving on a motorway just before being involved in a fatal crash. The court had previously heard how Ahmed sent and received five text messages while driving in the dark at spee...

Westminster's Labour Councillors have slammed Conservative plans to switch off dozens of traffic lights in an experiment to improve traffic flow in the West End. The experiment will start with a set of lights about 100 yards from Westminster Abbey, at the junction of Victoria Street and Strutton Ground. For the first two weeks the lights will work normally while for the following fortnight th...

Stella Rimmington thinks the Government 'risks' a Police State, wake up dear, its already here thats why you gave the interview to a Spanish Newspaper, not a British one. Dolly is about to be given the push Dizzy doing the investigating 'Lord' Ahmed to be sentenced by the Crown Court, for Dangerous Driving (Max 2 years) rather than Causing Death by Dangerous Driving. Given than...

What a wonderful stroke of luck for the government. Just at the point when it can take no more of the public fixation on knife crime, up pops the Sentencing Guidelines Council with new recommendations on tougher sentences for those who cause death by dangerous driving. Radio 4's Today programme led its bulletins on the subject this morning and devoted large chunks of discussion to what was a fairl...

A Conservative PPC founded a church that tried to "cure" homosexuals by driving out their "demons" through prayer. Philippa Stroud has heavily influenced David Cameron's beliefs on subjects such as the family. Anyone who believes in demons and exorcising 'gayness' is a dangerous nutter and the whilst the Tory party might not make a big deal of it (there is an election on after all),...

As many will know, recently, Lord Ahmed was jailed for dangerous driving, having ploughed into a stationary vehicle on a motorway which then resulted in a fatality. Lord Ahmed had been sending SMS messages prior to the collision. Whilst the Judge in the case stressed that the dangerous driving occured prior to the accident and therefore did not cause the death, it remains the fact that Lord Ahmed ...

New sentencing guidelines published today recommend jail sentences of at least seven years for dangerous drivers who cause death on the roads.

Lord Ahmed, the Labour peer serving 12 weeks for dangerous driving, will now be freed, after the Court of Appeal suspended his sentence. Ahmed was texting as he drove down the M1 on Christmas Day 2007, minutes before being involved in a fatal crash. The crash wasn't Ahmed's fault; it appears to have been a pure accident, entirely unrelated to the texting. Of course, if the texting had be...