MD CRIMINAL-LAW 3-212-1

Maryland Criminal Law Code Section 3-212.1 (2023) - Life Threatening Injury Involving a Motor Vehicle or Vessel -- Criminal Negligence -- Punishment (a) (1) In this section, “vessel” means any watercraft that is used or is capable of being used as a means of transportation on water or ice. (2) “Vessel” does not include a seaplane. (b) A person may not cause a life–threatening injury to another as a result of the person’s driving, operating, or controlling a motor vehicle or vessel in a criminally negligent manner. (c) For the purpose of this section, a person acts in a criminally negligent manner with respect to a result or a circumstance when: (1) the person should be aware, but fails to perceive, that the person’s conduct creates a substantial and unjustifiable risk that such a result w...