Maximum Sentence
10 years (bodily harm) / life (death)
Classification: Hybrid
🍁 Immigration Impact
Hybrid offence. Hit-and-run causing bodily harm or death is serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Even without injury, this creates inadmissibility under s.36(2).
Legal Text — Criminal Code s. 320.16
Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance and who knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the conveyance has been involved in an accident with a person or another conveyance and fails, without reasonable excuse, to stop the conveyance, give their name and address and, when any person has been injured or appears to require assistance, offer assistance.
Amendment History (1)
2018, c. 21, s. 15
Related Sections
Official Source: Justice Canada — Criminal Code s. 320.16 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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