The director of public prosecutions, Ken Macdonald, is to advise the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to charge drivers who kill cyclists with dangerous driving, instead of careless driving.
Macdonald says the new law of causing death by careless driving will carry a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment. At present, killer drivers mostly get away with being charged with careless driving because the CPS more often than not consider this an easier conviction to get.
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