New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 51A

51A Predatory driving

(1) The driver of a vehicle who, while in pursuit of or travelling near another vehicle--

(a) engages in a course of conduct that causes or threatens an impact involving the other vehicle, and

(b) intends by that course of conduct to cause a person in the other vehicle actual bodily harm,

is guilty of an offence and liable to imprisonment for 5 years.

(2) This section does not take away the liability of any person to be prosecuted for or found guilty of an offence under this Act or of any other offence, or affect the punishment that may be imposed for any such offence. However, a person who--

(a) has been convicted or acquitted of an offence under this section cannot be prosecuted for any other offence under this Act on the same, or substantially the same, facts, or

(b) has been convicted or acquitted of any other offence under this Act cannot be prosecuted for an offence under this section on the same, or substantially the same, facts.

(3) In this section--

"impact" involving a vehicle includes--

(a) an impact with any other vehicle or with a person or object, or

(b) the vehicle overturning or leaving a road.

"vehicle" has the same meaning it has in section 52A.