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Report
Major driving offences: current sentencing practices
Publisher
Drink-driving
Traffic accidents
Prison sentences
Driving offences
Victoria
Resources
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 apo-nid55563.pdf
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Description
Main findings
This report examines current sentencing practices between 2006–07 and 2012–13 (the ‘reference period’) for four major driving offences (collectively, the ‘reference offences’) :
- culpable driving causing death (‘culpable driving’);
- dangerous driving causing death;
- negligently causing serious injury (where driving related);
- dangerous driving causing serious injury.
The report presents high-level sentencing outcomes at both the charge and the case level for each of the reference offences. Additionally, it examines sentencing outcomes for dangerous driving causing death and negligently causing serious injury for the periods before and after increases to the maximum penalties for those offences.
Publication Details
Copyright:
Sentencing Advisory Council, State of Victoria 2015
License type:
All Rights Reserved
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
1 Jul 2015
