The Stephens v The Queen guidance on gradual increase in sentences for dangerous driving causing death is not confined to cases falling within or above the mid-category of seriousness as a quasi-statutory category. A sentence of 2 years and 6 months' imprisonment (12-month NPP) for two charges of dangerous driving causing death was within range where moral culpability was low but objective gravity was high, the offender having driven entirely onto the wrong side of the road killing two people.
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