Definition: If an impaired driver is involved in a traffic collision that causes the death of another person, the driver can be charged with murder just as if they had used a gun to kill the person. The fact that the driver was intoxicated is not a defense in a vehicular homicide case.
The driver can be charged if the person killed is in another vehicle, a pedestrian or even a passenger in his own vehicle.
Also Known As: Murder by Vehicle
Examples:
When his victim died in the hospital two days later, he was charged with vehicular homicide.
