Penalties for Hit and Run Rise in Texas

Failures to stop and render aid in a fatal accident are now second-degree felonies, raising the punishment to up to twenty years in prison. The law will make the punishment for a hit-and-run fatality equivalent to that for intoxicated manslaughter, even if the driver is not drunk.
www.texastribun...

[@veronicadiaz8747]

My 25 y/o son just got killed on 11/6/22 by a bastard who hit him and left my baby there and left. He was caught the next day 12+ hours later and the slap in my face after I went in to press charges as soon as I heard that one of the judges here in El Paso gave this murderer a 10,000 bond and all he paid was 1,000 to get out infuriated me to no end. I am now going to look into this law

[@TXBucksnort]

Awesome job Mom. Thanks for doing this for us!

[@thaboinger]

It's a good step, but isn't the incentive to flee still there? Offenders can still use Nestande's "I didn't know I hit anyone" defense and not be found guilty of failure to stop and render aid, and instead get a lighter charge/sentence if any.

[@comments.cuestionsandconcerns]

godspeed to that family. i had someone hit and run my car. i was not in the car but watching it happened messed me up in the head.

[@lauriegriffin5212]

Inhonorofcourtney
thaboinger that problem has been fixed as well with HB 3668 by Elliott Naishtat so the crime has been covered all the way around...HB 3668 "I thought I hit a deer bill" passed both houses and was signed by the Governor just a few weeks after SB 275.

[@randalallen5792]

There need to be a Federal law that supports search and convictions of Hit and Run drivers so People know their face is in the post office as public enemys.and reports on them will make them very uncomfortable.

[@johnwalsh4857]

good ....Texas is progressive in these laws.