NC · jury_instructions
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 271.51
HIT AND RUN WITH PERSONAL INJURY OR DEATH (FAILURE TO STOP OR GIVE REQUIRED INFORMATION). MISDEMEANOR.
NOTE WELL: G.S. § 20-166(c) provides that this offense is
applicable “only if the operator of the vehicle did not know and
did not have reason to know of the death or injury.”
The defendant has been charged with misdemeanor failing to [stop]
[give required information] at the scene when the defendant was the driver
of a vehicle involved in a crash 1 which resulted in [injury] [death].
For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must
prove six things beyond a reasonable doubt:
First, that the defendant was driving a vehicle. 2
Second, that the vehicle was involved in a crash.
Third, that a person [suffered personal injury in] [died as a result of]
this crash.
Fourth, that the defendant knew or reasonably should have known
that the vehicle the defendant was driving was involved in a crash.
Fifth, that the defendant failed to
a. [Immediately stop the defendant’s vehicle at the scene of the crash].
b. [Give the defendant’s name, address, driver’s license number and the
license plate number of the defendant’s vehicle to the [person struck]
[[driver] [occupant] of any other vehicle involved]. 3
And Sixth, that the defendant's failure to [stop] [give the required
information] was willful, that is, intentional (and without justification or
excuse.) 4
If you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or
about the alleged date the defendant was driving a vehicle that the
defendant knew or reasonably should have known was involved in a crash,
which resulted in [personal injury to] [death of] a person, and that the
defendant willfully (and without justification or excuse) failed to
a. [immediately stop]
b. [give the defendant’s name, address, drivers license number and
license plate number of the defendant’s vehicle to the [person struck]
[[driver] [occupant] of any other vehicle involved]
it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty. If you do not so find or
have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would be your
duty to return a verdict of not guilty.
History
N.C.P.I.—Crim. 271.51 (June 2009). N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-166(c), (c1). Prepared by the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges' Committee on Pattern Jury Instructions, assisted by the UNC School of Government; published by the School of Government.
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