Vehicular Manslaughter

The vast majority of drivers try their best everyday to drive carefully to help ensure the safety of everyone on the road—including themselves and their passengers.  Unfortunately, some drivers make unfortunate decisions which impair their ability to drive, including driving while intoxicated, abusing cell phones, and more.  Impaired drivers—and sometimes drivers who are not impaired—sometimes find themselves charged with trucking vehicular manslaughter.  What this means is that the driver is at fault in an accident which leads to the death of someone else involved in the accident.  Sometimes, however, fault is incorrectly assigned in an accident and the wrong person is charged with vehicular manslaughter.  In other cases, other parties are to blame entirely, yet the police incorrectly assigned fault at the scene and an innocent person finds themselves charged with vehicular manslaughter.  If you believe that you have been wrongfully charged with vehicular trucking manslaughter, contact one of our knowledgeable and experienced Fresno trucking vehicular manslaughter attorney today. 

If you do find yourself charged with trucking vehicular manslaughter, it is important that a defense investigation is launched as quickly as possible, which critical evidence is still available.  The police tend to place intoxicated drivers at fault even when another driver, road conditions, or mechanical failure were the true culprit.  While DUI is a serious offense, it does not necessarily follow that the impaired driver is guilty of trucking accident resulting in vehicular manslaughter.  If you have been charged with vehicular manslaughter, contact an experienced Fresno trucking accident attorney immediately especially when vehicular manslaughter is charged.  We can investigate the circumstances of the Fresno trucking accident to determine whether or not you were at fault.  While death in a motor vehicle accident is always a tragedy, you should not be charged or held liable for that death if you were not at fault in the accident. 

The most common vehicular manslaughter charges are Vehicular Manslaughter While Intoxicated (Ordinary Negligence), Gross Vehicular Manslaughter While Intoxicated, and Gross Vehicular Manslaughter.  Gross vehicular manslaughter is always a felony, but vehicular manslaughter due to ordinary negligence can be handled either as a misdemeanor case or a felony case, depending on the circumstances of the accident.  Any driver can be charged with vehicular manslaughter if they violated a traffic law and thus may have caused the accident.  Many prosecutors will press vehicular manslaughter charges even if you committed a very minor traffic violation in Fresno which in truth did not lead to the accident.  To protect yourself from wrongful prosecution for any truck accident in Fresno, contact a qualified and experienced attorney today.