Xie Yao Quan on Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill
The maximum penalty for the new offence of purposeful endangerment by drivers causing death or grievous hurt is 15 years’ jail, on par with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Yet the maximum penalty for dangerous driving causing death is still about half of that, at eight years. MP Xie Yao Quan made a case for why this should be raised - to 11 years, he suggested. In parliament on Tuesday (Aug 4), he also argued for harmonising the offence of dangerous driving causing grievous hurt with dangerous driving causing death. He noted that for victims in the worst types of incidents, “surviving may not be better off than death”.
The maximum penalty for the new offence of purposeful endangerment by drivers causing death or grievous hurt is 15 years’ jail, on par with culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Yet the maximum penalty for dangerous driving causing death is still about half of that, at eight years. MP Xie Yao Quan made a case for why this should be raised - to 11 years, he suggested. In parliament on Tuesday (Aug 4), he also argued for harmonising the offence of dangerous driving causing grievous hurt with dangerous driving causing death. He noted that for victims in the worst types of incidents, “surviving may not be better off than death”.
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