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Driving without due care and attention or careless driving is a legal term for a particular type of moving traffic violation related to aggressive driving in the United States, Canada (at least in Ontario [1]), the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It is often punishable by fines or endorsements like suspensions on a driver's license.
(b) A person shall be guilty of reckless driving if the person drives a vehicle upon a highway carelessly and heedlessly in willful or wanton disregard for the rights or safety of others, or without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger a person or property.
The actus reus of the offence is "driving in a manner dangerous to the public, having regard to all the circumstances". [12] The mens rea of the offence is "that the degree of care exercised by the accused was a marked departure from the standard of care that a reasonable person would observe in the accused’s circumstances". [12]
Aggressive driving also negatively impacts the environment as it burns 37% more fuel and produces more toxic fumes. [6] Aggressive driving (abrupt acceleration and frequent slamming on of the brakes) also emits more carbon than a calmer approach. Calm driving would save nearly half a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2050 in China alone. [5]
Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China; Commercial driver's license; ... Driving while black; Driving without due care and attention; E.
Driving without due care and attention: 3 - 9 4 CD20 Driving without reasonable consideration for other road users 3 - 9 4 CD30 Driving without due care and attention/reasonable consideration 3 - 9 4 CD33 Causing serious injury by careless or inconsiderate driving 3 - 9 4 CD40 Causing death through careless driving when unfit through drink 3 ...
When a traffic stop is made, a warning issued by the officer is a statement that the motorist has committed some offense, but is being spared the actual citation. Officers use their own discretion whether to issue a citation or warning. [ 1 ]
The ACDA may also be dynamic as to the moving distance past which a motorist can be assured to be able to stay clear of a foreseeable dynamic hazard—such as to maintain a distance as to be able to safely swerve around a bicyclist should he succumb to a fall—without requiring a full stop beforehand, if doing so could be exercised with due ...