Sentencing Act 2020

154 Vehicle to be treated as used for purpose of certain offences

(1) This section applies where a person commits an offence listed in subsection (2) by—

(a) driving, attempting to drive, or being in charge of, a vehicle,

(b) failing to comply with a requirement made under section 7 or 7A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (failure to provide specimen for analysis or laboratory test or to give permission for such a test) in the course of an investigation into whether the offender had committed an offence while driving, attempting to drive, or being in charge of, a vehicle, or

(c) failing, as the driver of a vehicle, to comply with subsection (2) or (3) of section 170 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (duty to stop and give information or report accident).

(2) Those offences are—

(a) an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 which is punishable with imprisonment;

(b) an offence of manslaughter;

(c) an offence under section 35 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (wanton and furious driving).

(3) The vehicle is to be regarded for the purposes of section 153 (and section 157(3)(b)) as used for the purpose of committing the offence (including where it is committed by aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring).