Where a learner driver deliberately drives unsupervised in breach of permit conditions, with minimal driving experience and in an unfamiliar vehicle, the whole of the journey is relevantly dangerous for the purposes of assessing moral culpability under the Whyte guideline, and a finding of low moral culpability is not reasonably open. The combination of inexperience, ignorance of the vehicle, and unsupervised driving points to an abandonment of responsibility.
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