SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 8Road traffic offences: minor and consequential amendments
Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 (c. 55)
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(1)
The Road Traffic Offenders Act 1988 is amended as follows.
(2)
In section 24 (alternative verdicts: general), in subsection (1), in the table—
(a)
in the entry relating to section 1A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (causing serious injury by dangerous driving), in the second column, after “Section 2 (dangerous driving)” insert “Section 2C (causing serious injury by careless, or inconsiderate, driving)”
, and
(b)
after the entry relating to section 2B of that Act (causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving), insert—
“Section 2C (causing serious injury by careless, or inconsiderate, driving)
Section 3 (careless, and inconsiderate, driving”
(3)
In Schedule 1 (offences to which sections 1, 6, 11 and 12(1) apply), in the table after paragraph 4, after the entry relating to section 2B of the Road Traffic Act 1988 (causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving) insert—
“RTA section 2C
Causing serious injury by careless, or inconsiderate, driving
Sections 11 and 12(1) of this Act”