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On 18 November 2022, Emma had just gone into labour with her youngest child. Mother and child were okay when she received a call informing her that her parents had been tragically killed in a car crash. The driver of the other vehicle had no licence and was uninsured. On what was supposed to be one of the happiest days of Emma’s life, she instead had to identify the bodies of her parents, Ian and Gail. When the case came to court, the driver of the other vehicle was charged with the lesser offence of causing death by careless driving, rather than by dangerous driving. That reduced the sentence available to the court, even though he was swerving in and out of traffic, and drove without a licence or insurance. I put it to the House that this, by its very nature, is dangerous.