Driving

Driving (see COACHING, and RIDING AND DRIVING). Driving vehicles or riding furiously and recklessly in a public place, to the danger of the lieges, is an offence at common law in England, and may be prosecuted as culpable neglect of duty according to the law of Scotland. It has, however, been made a statutory offence, and a long series of acts passed to regulate the misconduct of drivers of public carriages, under which prosecutions are now as a rule brought. In the United States, furious driving in cities generally is a misdemeanour punishable by fine and imprisonment. In the absence of state laws, municipalities regulate the rate of driving.