DUI Involving an Accident
Attorney Chris Cessna discusses the seriousness of an auto accident where the driver was under the influence of alcohol.
If your case involved an accident where someone else was involved other than you, whether it’s a passenger, a pedestrian, or someone in another car., you may have been told at the scene, by either the police or that person that they are fine, they are not hurt. Do not believe it. You need to contact us immediately. It is not uncommon for these other people to later come back and claim that they now have serious bodily injury and of course if you hit someone and they died, that elevated these cases up to felony status of either vehicular homicide or vehicular assault.
These cases now become felony cases that can send you to prison for many years and maybe just as importantly could burden you with restitution and civil liability up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. There are simple things that we can tell you over the phone with a simple consultation that could save you from getting into that kind of an issue or that kind of a situation where you might be looking at going to prison or paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next many years because of something you didn’t know.