Aggravated Vehicle Taking Offences

Why aggravated vehicle taking and other motoring related matters? In 2023 the Sentencing Council published new and revised sentencing guidelines for a range of motoring offences relating to dangerous and careless driving. This was a wide-ranging package, but there remain several motoring-related offences for which guidelines do not exist or are out of date. There are currently magistrates’ courts guidelines for aggravated vehicle taking offences involving dangerous driving, accident causing injury , and causing damage to vehicle/property . However, these were published in 2008 by the Sentencing Guidelines Council, the Sentencing Council’s predecessor body, and do not follow the detailed, step-by-step format now familiar to the courts. They also do not provide sentence levels for the Crown Court. This consultation therefore seeks views on a comprehensive package of new and revised guidelines for aggravated vehicle taking offences, for use