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Quote by: Isherwood  Don't mean to nitpick, but if you run a red light, you are responsible for any action that occurs as a result of that criminal act. If a collision results from the illegal action of failing to yield to a red light, you will be charged. If that includes a death, you can be charged with vehicular homicide. |
Ohhh c'mon bro, I thought you knew the law?
http://www.ndaa-apri.org/pdf/Vehicul...de%20chart.pdf
State by state, the law is slightly different, but one thing remains constant;
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Quote by: ARIZONA (State where this "crime" occured); A person commits negligent homicide if with criminal negligence such person causes the death of another person. |
Traffic violations are not crimes. Criminal negligence requires a crime. Hazerdous driving is a crime, requiring impairment or willful violations.
In my state, Indiana, it would appear you must be intoxicated to even qualify;
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(a) A person who causes the death of another person when operating a motor vehicle:
(1) with an alcohol concentration equivalent to at least ten-hundredths (0.10)
gram of alcohol per:
(A) one hundred (100) milliliters of the person's blood; or
(B) two hundred ten (210) liters of the person's breath;
(2) with a controlled substance listed in schedule I or II of IC 35-48-2 or its
metabolite in the person's body; or
(3) while intoxicated;
commits a Class C felony. However, the offense is a Class B felony if, within the five
(5) years preceding the commission of the offense, the person had a prior unrelated
conviction under this chapter.
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Mistakes ARE NOT crimes. They are accidental and involutary.