BAN KILLER DRIVERS FROM ROAD FOR LIFE

MAIL DEMANDS LAW CHANGE IN SUPPORT OF VICTIMS' RELATIVES

- CARL JACKSON, JANE HAYNES News Reporters

THE Birmingham Mail today stands with the families of blameless loved ones, road safety campaigners and charities to press the Government to ban for life the motorists who maim or kill through reckless driving.

A lifelong ban should also be the default outcome for hit-and-run cowards who leave their victims dying or hurt on the roadside to try to evade responsibility.

Today, we urge the Ministry of Justice and the Sentencing Council to update disqualification guidelines to ensure those who abuse the privilege of driving, with catastrophic consequences, are never allowed to be in control of a vehicle again.

Our call comes amid mounting evidence that even the very worst offenders who excessively speed, drive while high or drunk and who repeatedly ignore the law are given a way back behind the wheel.

Locally, not a single one of the motorists involved in any of the region's recent high profile cases of causing death or serious injury by dangerous or careless driving, or those involved in the worst hit-and-run incidents, has been given a lifetime ban.