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ROAD TRAFFIC ACT 1974 - SECT 60

60 .         Driving in reckless manner

        (1)         For the purposes of this section, a motor vehicle is driven in a reckless manner if it is driven in a manner (which expression includes speed) that is inherently dangerous or that is, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, dangerous to the public or to any person.

        (1A)         A person commits an offence if the person wilfully drives a motor vehicle in a reckless manner in —

            (a)         a confiscation zone; or

            (b)         any other place.

        [(1b), (1c), (1D) deleted]

        (2)         A person charged with an offence against this section may, instead of being convicted of that offence, be convicted of an offence against section 60A, 61, 62 or 62A.

        [Section 60 amended: No. 11 of 1988 s. 24; No. 78 of 1995 s. 147; No. 50 of 1997 s. 13; No. 50 of 2003 s. 92(2); No. 10 of 2004 s. 8; No. 54 of 2006 s. 12; No. 24 of 2008 s. 4; No. 23 of 2009 s. 5; No. 8 of 2012 s. 37; No. 59 of 2012 s. 9; No. 51 of 2016 s. 7.]



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