Following King v The Queen, sentencing for dangerous driving causing serious injury must not import negligence concepts from R v De Montero. The focus must be on the manner of driving giving rise to risk of harm potentially dangerous to others, assessed objectively. Driving while objectively likely to fall asleep due to prior drug consumption, and failure to secure passengers, are aspects of 'dangerousness' for sentencing purposes.
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