A driver's failure to look properly before crossing a major highway, resulting in collision with a highly visible vehicle, constitutes an egregious want of care and high moral culpability, not mere 'momentary inattention'. Where an offender's risk of reoffending is assessed as low whether given an ICO or full-time custody, the s 66(2) factor becomes neutral and the sentencing judge may decline an ICO on the basis that general deterrence would not be sufficiently served.
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