Life bans threatened
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• Truckers involved in fatal accidents could face lifetime driving bans as part of legislation designed to improve road safety.
Tougher penalties for road traffic offences may also include raisIng maximum speeding fines to .21,000 and forcing all banned drivers to retake their tests. These measures are reportedly being considered as part of the government's road safety strategy, published earlier this year. A Home Office spokeswoman says the review will be Published later this summer.
Road safety campaign group Brake backs tougher penalties. A spokeswoman says: You can be fined more for dropping litter than for driving dangerously and killing someone on the road. This instils a general attitude that dri • vers can 'get away with it'. The charge of death by dangerous driving should be used with a range of penalties, depending on the gravity of the case."