The reason why states provide penalties for hit-and-runs is this - suppose the person you crash into (another person's car) gets spinal-cord-injured and you speed off after the crash without giving assistance or calling 911 to the accident victim. That is - you don't care about the hurt person. Despicable! If you speed off without helping the other crash victim or calling 911, that person could be disabled forever or die - and that is how you can quickly be criminally prosecuted this way. The charge of hit-and-run could also be upgraded to reckless homicide if the prosecutors want that, if that person dies.
Technically - hit-and-run means this - this means, after you crash your car into another car, you purposely leave the scene of an accident without exchanging the information from yourself to the accident victim (s) of the other vehicle and vice versa, or if you fail to give info to the person of the unattended vehicle you hit. It can be a citable offense and/or a finable offense, but even worse - if the hit-and-run involves death or serious injury - IT CAN BE A JAILABLE OFFENSE, AND EVEN WORSE - IT CAN LEAD TO LICENSE SUSPENSION OR EVEN WORSE - REVOCATION! If you get your license revoked, YOU HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN before you drive again! Laws are laws!!!!
The reason why states provide penalties for hit-and-runs is this - suppose the person you crash into (another person's car) gets spinal-cord-injured and you speed off after the crash without giving assistance or calling 911 to the accident victim. That is - you don't care about the hurt person. Despicable!
If you speed off without helping the other crash victim or calling 911, that person could be disabled forever or die - and that is how you can quickly be criminally prosecuted this way. The charge of hit-and-run could also be upgraded to reckless homicide if the prosecutors want that, if that person dies.
Technically - hit-and-run means this - this means, after you crash your car into another car, you purposely leave the scene of an accident without exchanging the information from yourself to the accident victim (s) of the other vehicle and vice versa, or if you fail to give info to the person of the unattended vehicle you hit.
It can be a citable offense and/or a finable offense, but even worse - if the hit-and-run involves death or serious injury - IT CAN BE A JAILABLE OFFENSE, AND EVEN WORSE - IT CAN LEAD TO LICENSE SUSPENSION OR EVEN WORSE - REVOCATION!
If you get your license revoked, YOU HAVE TO START ALL OVER AGAIN before you drive again!
Laws are laws!!!!