Where a defendant engages in a continuous course of dangerous driving to escape police that culminates in a collision causing harm, the entire course of driving may properly be treated as encompassed within the offence of aggravated causing harm by dangerous driving, rather than being limited to the driving immediately preceding the collision. A sentence of four years' imprisonment (reduced from five for guilty pleas) for such conduct, where the defendant had extensive criminal antecedents including prior dangerous driving convictions, was within the sentencing discretion.
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