Post-offence conduct occurring days after a fail to stop offence (such as attempts to dispose of a vehicle or lies to police) cannot be treated as aggravating the objective seriousness of the offence under s 52AB(1), though it remains relevant to subjective considerations including character, remorse, and specific deterrence. Where an offender is sentenced for both causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop, the indicative sentence for failing to stop should not ordinarily be of the same order as, or exceed, the sentence for causing the death, despite the identical maximum penalties. The question whether same-day concealment conduct may form part of the objective seriousness of a fail to stop offence was expressly left open.
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