Two people died in a terrible accident earlier this year at Ditchling Road in Brighton.

Tony Pickett and Lucy Hampshire from Worthing were the couple who lost their lives. Mr Pickett's five-year-old son, Joshua, crawled free from the wreckage.

The other motorist involved, Alun Davies, 25, from Watford, only suffered a broken collar bone in the crash.

He pleaded guilty at Brighton Court to careless driving. His punishment was £300 in fines and a 12-month driving ban.

So the cost of each of these lives was £150 and the man responsible for this double tragedy will be back on the road next year.

Nothing can bring back this much-loved couple or give Joshua his father again. The law urgently needs changing in these driving cases.

The Argus has been campaigning for this ever since PC Jeff Tooley was mown down by a convicted robber in Shoreham and received only a five-year sentence.

Careless driving is a minor offence. People convicted of it, or who plead guilty to it, receive light sentences.

The Government needs to introduce another and more serious offence for cases such as this one when bad, but not necessarily reckless, driving causes death.

It is a scandal that this motorist, who caused such a disaster, should have got off so lightly. Justice has not been done or been seen to be done.