Driving Under the Influence

VC23153

Vehicle Code § 23153 VC- sets forth the California crime of DUI causing injury. You commit this offense if you
1. drive a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, and
2. while doing so, cause an accident in which another person is injured.
Drunk driving causing injury can lead to felony charges punishable by a prison sentence of up to four years.
23153 (A) VC– It is unlawful for a person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
23153(B)VC– It is unlawful for a person, while having 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
23153(F) VC- It is unlawful for a person, while under the influence of any drug, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
(g) It is unlawful for a person, while under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver.
20001(A)VC– is the California statute that defines the crime of felony hit and run with injury. This section makes it a crime to flee the scene of a car accident in which another person has been injured or killed.
If the accident only causes property damage but no injuries, then prosecutors can only file misdemeanor hit and run charges per Vehicle Code 20002 VC. But if the accident injures or kills another person, the state can charge the more serious crime of felony hit and run.

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