Part 2: Criminal liability for vehicle use Chapter 2: Offences Section 54: Dangerous use etc
Subsection (1) adds three new sections to the Road Traffic Act 1988. New section 3B provides for the user-in-charge immunity created by Section 47 to apply to the offences in sections 1 to 3A of that Act. New section 3C creates an offence related to the use of automated vehicles in dangerous state, and new section 3D an offence of causing death, or serious injury by use of automated vehicles in a dangerous state.
	Subsection (2) inserts a new section 22B into the Road Traffic Act 1988. New section 22B provides that a person commits an offence where a person commits an offence under the Road Traffic Act 1988 section 22A (relating to causing anything to be on or over a road or interference with a vehicle or traffic equipment) that causes an authorised automated vehicle to commit a traffic infraction and thereby kill or seriously injure someone. Subsection (3) provides that new section 22B does not extend to Scotland. This is because, as noted by the Law Commissions in their review, Scots law already covers aggravated conduct (general common law offences of malicious mischief or culpable and reckless conduct and culpable homicide).
	Section 54(3) places these four new offences in Part 1 of Schedule 2 to the Road Traffic Act 1988 in the appropriate places.