The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 4 WLR 14
Court of Appeal
Rex
v
Holder (Kai)
[2023] EWCA Crim 5
2022 Nov 8; 2023 Jan 13
Dame Victoria Sharp P, Murray, Farbey JJ
Road traffic— Causing death by dangerous driving— Defendant driving motor scooter with pillion passenger aged 14 — Neither defendant nor passenger wearing crash helmets— Defendant driving at speed and hitting kerb causing motor scooter to overturn— Passenger fatally injured— At trial defendant submitting passenger not wearing crash helmet irrelevant to standard of driving and prejudicial— Judge ruling against submission— Whether judge’s ruling correct—
Road Traffic Act 1988 (c 52), ss 1, 2A
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