Consultations

• Road Traffic Offences involving Bad Driving Consultation
  Road Traffic Offences involving Bad Driving Consultation The Road Safety Bill contained no provision to deal with the inadequacy of the current law in relation to road death and injury. On 3rd February 2005, the long-awaited Report commissioned from Professor Halliday was launched. This Report, 'Review of Road Traffic Offences involving Bad Driving' is available for public consultation and we urge you to respond. Every response is important! The...more
• Coroners Bill Consultation
  Coroners Bill Team Coroners Division Department of Constitutional Affairs Ground Floor 4 Abbey Orchard Street London SW1P 2HP 8 September 2006 Dear Sirs Coroners Bill Consultation Thank you for giving us the opportunity to respond to this consultation. Our response will support and repeat many of the points made by Zoe Stow, in her submission dated 30.8.2006. RoadPeace, as the charity representing the interests of people who suffer the sudden vi...more
• CPS Consultation on bad driving
  CPS Consultation on prosecuting bad driving Background This is the first time the CPS has consulted on their prosecution policy on cases involving bad driving. It is focused, but not exclusive, to cases involving deaths It is important to note that the CPS consultation does not consider whether new offences should be created or the nature of sentences for offences. These have been decided in the Road Safety Act 2006. However, there are areas whe...more
• Exclusion of road crash victims from Victim Services Code
  Exclusion of road crash victims from Victim Services Code Road victims continue to be neglected and discriminated against. Unlike other crime victims, road crash victims are still excluded from the basic provision of service obligations by agencies such as the police, Crown Prosecution Service or courts. RoadPeace protested to the Home Office when the first draft of the code excluded all bereaved and injured road crash victims and held a meeting...more
• Family Charter Consultation
  Sarah Henderson Department for Constitutional Affairs Coroners Division Seacote House 2 Marsham Street London SW1 4DF 16 September 2005 Dear Sarah Family Charter Consultation Thank you for giving us the opportunity to comment on the draft Family Charter. We have expressed our concerns to Government on the subject of Coroners both in writing and at meetings over the years. One very useful meeting was with Lord Williams of Mostyn. We also took par...more
• RoadPeace response to Highway Code consultation
  May 8 2006 RoadPeace response to Highway Code consultation Established in 1992, RoadPeace is the national charity for road traffic victims and thus represents the losers of the road users. Our founding objectives included providing emotional and practical support for victims and campaigning for road danger reduction. RoadPeace's Vision is for a world in which road deaths and injuries are no longer treated by the economy as acceptable, by the jud...more
• Home Office Consultation.
  Home Office Consultation Home Office Lyndsay Gittus Fry Building 2nd Floor 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF 6 May 2005 Dear Lyndsay Gittus, Review of Road Traffic Offences involving Bad Driving RoadPeace wishes to provide a response to the above consultation. RoadPeace is UK's charity dedicated to supporting bereaved and injured road crash victims and representing their interests. Set up in 1992, almost 100 years after the first death by a...more
• Motorcycle Strategy Enquiry
  22 January 2007 Transport Select Committee Motorcycle Strategy Enquiry RoadPeace Response Summary As the national charity for road crash victims, RoadPeace represents both those who have suffered while motorcycling as well as those who have bereaved and injured by motorcyclists. We work to ensure lessons are learned from these tragedies in order to spare others suffering. Our key points on the DfT's Motorcycle Strategy are: Insufficient referen...more
• Transport Select Committee's Novice Drivers' Enquiry
  7 March 2007 Transport Select Committee's Novice Drivers' Enquiry RoadPeace response 1 Summary Key points The introduction of a Graduated Driving License (GDL) system is needed and long overdue. While other countries have adopted GDL and benefited, our children still leap from the cocooned safety of accompanied driving to being allowed to drive at night and with friends, despite extensive research showing these to be high risk activities for no...more
• Prosecuting Bad Driving
  10 April 2007 Prosecuting Bad Driving - Consultation on CPS Policy and Practice - Response by RoadPeace Summary RoadPeace, UK's national charity for road crash victims, welcomes the opportunity to respond to this consultation - in order to achieve greater justice and fairer treatment for the victims of road crashes. Already in June 1992, the CPS pledged greater openness about its decision making, and greater effectiveness (attached is article fr...more
• Review of Code for Crown Prosecutors
  Ken Macdonald QC CPS Headquarters 50 Ludgate Hill London EC4M 7EX 27 April 2004 Dear Mr Macdonald, Review of Code for Crown Prosecutors Thank you for sending us a copy for comment. Unfortunately, there are so many consultations at present that it is impossible to respond in the detail that we would wish. We would like to make some general points: 1.We would welcome the change to decisions by lawyers rather than police on charging but would be ve...more
• Sentencing Advisory Pane, Causing Death by Driving consultation
  27 April 2007 RoadPeace response Sentencing Advisory Panel Causing Death by Driving consultation Introduction 1. RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, was established in 1992, after the founder's son was killed in a crash by a driver who had driven through a bank of red traffic lights and yet was only prosecuted for 'Driving without due care and attention'. RoadPeace's campaigning has concentrated on road death and serious inju...more
• To Victims and Confidence Unit
  To Victims and Confidence Unit Home Office From Zoe Stow Victims Advisory Panel And RoadPeace PO BOX 2579 London NW10 3PW 23 November 2004 Dear Sirs Increasing Victims and Witnesses satisfaction with the Criminal Justice System Consultation on Toolkit 4 I have commented on the VPSS to the Attorney General, Solicitor General, Victims Advisory Panel on a number of occasions as being a worthy concept but potentially causing additional problems for ...more
• Victims' Code of Practice Consultation
  Home Office Attn. Lisa Vernon Victims and Confidence Unit Office for Criminal Justice Reform 1st Floor, Fry Building 2 Marsham Street London SW1P 4DF 25 June 2005 Dear Lisa Vernon, Victims' Code of Practice Consultation RoadPeace wishes to provide a response to the above consultation; thank you for the extension of the deadline for our response. RoadPeace is UK's charity dedicated to supporting bereaved and injured road crash victims and represe...more
• The Victims Right to Information and Consultation
  The Victims Right to Information and Consultation The present position of road victims and progress in this area since the Launch of RoadPeace's Justice Campaign in July 1998. Zoe Stow, Chair of RoadPeace In 2001 the Victims Charter was to be updated and for the first time road victims were considered for inclusion. Responses to the consultation were overwhelmingly in favour and it seemed a virtual certainty. It seemed that at last, road victi...more