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WPIC 96.03 Negligent Driving—First Degree—Negligent—Definition

11A WAPRAC WPIC 96.03Washington Practice Series TMWashington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal

11A Wash. Prac., Pattern Jury Instr. Crim. WPIC 96.03 (5th Ed)
Washington Practice Series TM
Washington Pattern Jury Instructions--Criminal
January 2024 Update
Washington State Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions
Part XI. Crimes Involving Operation of Motor Vehicles
WPIC CHAPTER 96. Negligent Driving
WPIC 96.03 Negligent Driving—First Degree—Negligent—Definition
Negligent means the failure to exercise ordinary care and is the doing of some act that a reasonably careful person would not do under the same or similar circumstances or the failure to do something that a reasonably careful person would do under the same or similar circumstances.
NOTE ON USE
Use this instruction with WPIC 96.02 (Negligent Driving—First Degree—Elements).
COMMENT
RCW 46.61.5249(2)(a).
[Current as of February 2020.]
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