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can the owner criminal liable for knowingly authorized another drunk friend to drive and cause serious bodily injury to anoth
Asked on Jan 16th, 2012 on DUI/DWI - Texas
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If the owner and driver of a vehicle are both drunk, and the owner authorized his friend to drive his vehicle that caused a hit and run and serious bodily injury to others, who is liable? For what crimes?
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Not a crime but there could be civil liabilities. (They could try to charge the owner under some kind of accomplice theory but I have not heard of this before.)
Answered on Jan 27th, 2012 at 10:26 AM
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That's a civil question. Are they both responsible or contributorily negligent? But in the criminal world, person who gets arrested can't blame the owner. He's an adult and doesn't have to drive. Unless a gun was held to his head or something like that.
Answered on Jan 26th, 2012 at 6:28 PM