Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 34025

Dangerous Driving: Animals

Tabled: 26 February 2025

Answered: 5 March 2025

Question

Lisa Smart

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of amending sections 1 to 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 to extend dangerous driving offences to include incidents causing the (a) death and (b) serious i

Answer

Lilian Greenwood

The Government has no plans to consider amending the Road Traffic Act 1988 in the way suggested.