News - Careless Driving

Failure to drive with due care and attention is an offence that is commonly referred to as careless driving. In this mini guide, we put a spotlight on one of the most frequently prosecuted motoring offences in the UK, looking Read more...

If you are a driver in the UK, you might have heard of the phrase ‘careless driving’, but what exactly does it mean? Careless driving is essentially a failure to drive with due care and attention. As an offence, it Read more...

A man from Winsford, Cheshire, has been jailed for causing serious injury by careless driving and acting with intent to pervert the course of justice. Anthony Abbott, 45, plead guilty to both charges and was sentenced on April 23 at Read more...

Cambridgeshire Police have arrested a 36-year-old man under suspicion of causing death by careless driving, following a tragic incident that claimed the life of a motorcyclist. On the evening of Thursday, April 23, a white Kia EV4 collided with a Read more...

A woman on trial for causing death by careless driving has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity, claiming she was suffering an epileptic seizure at the time of the incident. Fiona Hodge has gone on trial at Bristol Crown Read more...

A police offer has been charged with causing death by careless driving as a result of an incident that killed a woman in 2021. In April 2021, jogger Kimberley Cameron, 27, was struck by a police car driven by PC Read more...

Careless and inconsiderate driving is an offence in the UK. It is often referred to as “driving without due care and attention”. Sometimes we might forget - driving is not only an exercise in following the rules of the road; Read more...

A man from Devon has been convicted of careless driving without due care and attention at a trial in Exeter Magistrates’ Court. Jonathan Clarke-Irons had pleaded not guilty to the charge, but evidence from CCTV and the defendant’s own dash-cam Read more...

Appearing in Llanelli Magistrates’ Court on March 3, 62-year-old Steven Phillips of Lletynewydd was fined £440 following a conviction for careless driving. He was also given six licence points and ordered to pay £130 in costs and £176 surcharge. On Read more...

At a hearing in Peterborough Crown Court on February 24, lorry driver Kevin Miller, 71, admitted to causing the death of a young mother in the Willingham area of Cambridgeshire. Miller, of Gayton Road, King’s Lynn, was initially charged with Read more...

Heavy goods vehicle (HGV) driver Raymond Cox has been convicted for driving without due care and attention, following a collision on the A27 on July 28, 2025. Cox was driving his HGV near the Holmbush Centre in Shoreham, when his Read more...

Appearing before Aberystwyth Magistrates’ Court on January 14, 19-year-old Daniel Davis was fined after pleading guilty to a charge of driving without due care and attention. Davis, from Llanrhystud, was caught driving carelessly along the A457 in Aberaeron in November Read more...