A wholly suspended sentence for dangerous driving causing death with a blood alcohol concentration of .15% or more is manifestly inadequate, notwithstanding strong mitigating factors including a timely guilty plea, genuine remorse, good character, and the attitude of the deceased's family. The established sentencing pattern requires actual and substantial imprisonment. A sentence of three years' imprisonment suspended after nine months was appropriate on facts involving reckless driving over a short distance at .17% BAC causing the death of a passenger in a vulnerable position.
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