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Change the law of failing to stop after a fatal or serious injury crash

Submitted on Tuesday 11th August 2020

Rejected on Tuesday 18th August 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Change the law of failing to stop after a fatal or serious injury crash

Petition Details

At the moment the law allows that if someone who is involved is a serious or fatal car crash to leave the scene. They are required to stop , remain at the scene and give details but if they don’t they are required to report the crash to the police as soon as reasonably practicable within 24 hours

Additional Information

I would like this law to be changed so that any person involved in a serious or fatal accident has to stop and stay at scene and report straight away to help the injured on the road. At present the British law acts as an incentive for law braking drivers to flee the scene of the kill someone. If they do stay at the scene there is sometimes a risk of a higher sentence due circumstances like drink driving, stolen Car or another person admitting to the crime they didn’t do.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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