If someone is involved in an accident and another motorist dies, there are usually civil consequences, but when is the line crossed and the matter becomes criminal? In Florida, vehicular homicide is the killing of a human being, or the killing of an unborn child by any injury to the mother, caused by the operation of a motor vehicle by another in a reckless manner likely to cause the death of, or great bodily harm to, another. Florida Statutes § 782.071. Vehicular homicide in Florida is a second-degree felony, punishable by up to fifteen years in prison, 120 hours of community service at...

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