Careless Driving Research Paper

Careless driving is an offence related to general poor driving and includes a variety of behaviours, such as tailgating, failing to look properly and sudden braking. It is defined in law (section 3ZA of the Road Traffic Act 1988) as driving that "falls below what is expected of a competent and careful driver" and "driving without reasonable consideration for other persons only if those persons are inconvenienced by his driving". The offences for careless driving include driving "without due care and attention" and "without reasonable consideration for other persons" (section 3 of the Road Traffic Act 1988). Examples of heavy penalties should be imposd to careless drivers are drivers who drive carelessly shall punished with a fine, demerit points given to careless drivers and court shall order …show more content…
At court, careless and inconsiderate driving attracts between 3-9 penalty points, a fine of up to £5,000 and discretionary disqualification. There is a separate offence for causing death by careless driving, which has higher penalties, including mandatory disqualification and the option of a custodial sentence. With the less serious cases of careless driving where a collision was a result of an error of judgement by the driver because of the reporting requirements for collisions the police are involved, many police forces do offer the option of driver improvement training as an alternative to prosecution. Besides that, demerit points given to careless drivers. According to Kejara System or the Demerit system adopted by the Malaysian Road Transport Department, all in all there are 18 important offenses involved on the road whereby demerit points were given and one of the offense is careless driving. Careless driving is considered one of the serious traffic offense since 15 demerit points were