A plea of guilty entered during the COVID-19 pandemic ordinarily attracts a more pronounced amelioration of sentence than at other times. Where a deceased pedestrian was crossing against a red light, this contributory conduct is a material cause of the fatal injuries and bears upon the offender's moral culpability, placing the offending towards the lower end of the spectrum of seriousness for dangerous driving causing death. Alcohol consumption causing disinhibition, even where not causally linked to the collision itself, is properly treated as relevant to moral culpability.
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