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If you are DUI and have an accident and the person you hit was killed could you be charged with vehicular homicide?
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Yes, this would be common and appropriate.
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Can a person be charged with vehicular homicide if the driver was assaulted had seizure and ran off the road and the person who caused the assault was killed?
I would think that if the person doing the assualting got killed, and he was the cause of the accident (by assaulting the driver, and thus possibly causing the seizure), that there would be no indication of vehicular homicide, unless the driver was already stated that he/she was unable to drive due to seizures.
Can you be charged with murder and vehicular homicide in the state of Ohio?
A person can only be charged with one type of homicide for each person who was killed. If a pregnant woman was killed and the fetus was at least half term, then there are two homicides with which a person can be charged. Vehicular homicide is typically a less serious offense than murder. If evidence exists that the driver purposely ran over an individual with the intent to kill him, and did kill him, the driver can be charged with murder.
Who was tracy morgan friend that got kill n the accident?
James McNair, whose stage name was Jimmy Mack, was the friend of Tracy Morgan who was killed in the accident. A truck driver named Kevin Roper has been charged with assault by auto and vehicular homicide.
What could the driver be charged with if someone is injured or killed?
If someone in a vehicle accident is injured or killed, one or all of the drivers involved in the accident may be charged with vehicular manslaughter or felon reckless or drunken driving, depending on the circumstances. The driver charged does not necessarily have to be the one who caused the accident.
What would happen if 4 teens went joyriding and killed someone?
The driver would most certrainly be charged with, at the very least, mansalughter or Vehicular Homicide.
What is the penalty for vehicular homicide in Pennsylvania?
The description HOMICIDE, indicates that it was probably a criminal act, as opposed to an 'accidental' act which would be charged as MANSLAUGHTER. Therefore the penalty would be the same as if the victim was killed by means of any other weapon.
Who pays if person is passenger and killed in alcohol related car accident?
The drunk driver who caused the accident would be the person held responsible for any deaths-including a passenger. The crime is called vehicular homicide and a civil wrongful death case could also be brought against the drunk driver additionally. The article below goes into more detail on vehicular manslaughter.
If you got in a car accident under the influence of alcohol and killed a federal employee you would have broken what law?
You would have broken more than one law. You would be charged with vehicular manslaughter, among many other possible charges.
What if you try to commits suicide but someone else killed you?
They would be charged with Homicide. It is THEIR actions that are criminal act, not YOUR intent.
How many people were killed in an accident from taking drugs?
Any crash while intoxicated is not classified by drug, it just says that it is an intoxicated vehicular accident. So to answer your question, we simply do not know.
If a child is killed by your airbag Can you be charged with murder?
assuming the device detonates ( if that is the word) as the result of an automobile accident, it would be at worst involuntary homicide, certainly not murder as it was the result of an accident. it is a sad fact that while society has largely gotten over the idea of (Punishing) diseases, a criminal-procedure attitude and in effect legal stance persists with accidents, particularily when they take human life. let us face it, an accident, like the crane collapses last year in NY is not a deliberate malicious act- though some auto mishaps have been deliberate vehicular homicides- this is quite rare, running down someone , for example.
If two people are killed in a traffic accident can the driver be charge with murder if they are also dead?
Not unless he A.) killed the people then stuck them in the back then crashed B.) Purposely hit them. If it was an accident he would charged with manslaughter.
