Legally reviewed by Jimmy Litle, Managing Attorney. A Deputy District Attorney in the 4th Judicial District from 2013 to 2021, he led the office’s Vehicular Homicide Team and built the same impaired and reckless driving felony cases he now defends.
Vehicular assault in Colorado, under C.R.S. 18-3-205, is causing serious bodily injury to another person while driving recklessly or while impaired by alcohol or drugs. The DUI version is a class 4 felony and a strict liability crime, meaning the prosecution does not have to prove you intended to hurt anyone. The reckless version is a class 5 felony. A former prosecutor attacks causation and the injury element first.
When a crash causes serious injury and impairment is alleged, Colorado treats vehicular assault as a strict liability felony, so the prosecution does not have to prove you meant to hurt anyone. The charge is not about intent to injure. It turns on two facts: that someone suffered serious bodily injury, and that your driving, either reckless or impaired, was the proximate cause. This page explains how Colorado defines the offense, the difference between the strict liability DUI version and the reckless version, the real penalties and license consequences, how prosecutors in El Paso, Douglas, and Denver counties build these cases, and where an experienced criminal defense lawyer looks first to take them apart.
Right Law Group is built on a straightforward advantage: our attorneys used to be the prosecutors who filed and tried cases like this one. We know how the other side proves causation, how the accident reconstruction is built, and where these cases tend to fall apart. We keep offices in Colorado Springs, Castle Rock, Highlands Ranch, and Denver, and we serve clients across Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, El Paso, Fremont, Jefferson, Pueblo, and Teller counties.
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Vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205 is committed when a person drives a motor vehicle in a way that proximately causes serious bodily injury to another person, and the driving was either reckless or done while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or drugs. There is no element of intent to harm. The state does not have to show you wanted to hurt anyone, only that your manner of driving caused the injury.
Two facts do most of the work in a vehicular assault case. The first is the injury. The statute requires “serious bodily injury,” a term defined in C.R.S. 18-1-901 as a bodily injury that involves a substantial risk of death, a substantial risk of serious permanent disfigurement, a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of the function of any body part or organ, or that involves breaks, fractures, or second or third degree burns. An injury that does not meet that bar is not vehicular assault; it may be a lesser charge or no crime at all. The second fact is causation. The prosecution must prove your driving was the proximate cause of the injury, which means a direct, foreseeable cause, not merely one event in a long chain.
The manner of driving is what separates the two versions of the charge. One version rests on reckless driving, a conscious disregard of a substantial and unjustifiable risk. The other rests on driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the same impairment standard used in a DUI case. The two versions carry different felony classes and, importantly, are proven in very different ways.
Colorado writes vehicular assault as one statute with separate routes to conviction, and the route the prosecutor chooses changes both the felony class and what the state has to prove.
When the driving involved alcohol or drug impairment, vehicular assault is a class 4 felony under C.R.S. 18-3-205, and the statute expressly makes it a strict liability crime. Strict liability means the prosecution does not have to prove any culpable mental state. It only has to prove that you were under the influence, that you drove, and that your driving proximately caused serious bodily injury. Your intent, your care, and even whether the crash was partly someone else’s fault are not defenses to the mental-state element, because there is no mental-state element to disprove. This is the same strict liability structure Colorado uses for DUI vehicular homicide under C.R.S. 18-3-106. Because intent is off the table, the defense in a DUI vehicular assault case concentrates on the two facts the state still has to prove: impairment and causation.
When the charge rests on reckless driving rather than impairment, vehicular assault is a class 5 felony. Here the state must prove recklessness, meaning you consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk that your driving would cause serious bodily injury. That is a higher mental-state burden than the DUI version, which makes the recklessness finding a real point of contest. Ordinary carelessness, a momentary lapse, or a genuine accident is not recklessness. The gap between careless driving and reckless driving is often the difference between a felony and a traffic offense, and it is frequently where these cases are negotiated.
There is also a version based on driving while ability impaired, the lower impairment threshold used in a DWAI case, where alcohol or drugs affected the driver to the slightest degree. That version is a class 5 felony. It matters because the level of impairment the state can actually prove, full DUI-level influence versus slight DWAI-level impairment, can move the charge between felony classes. It is important to note, though, that this level is very rarely charged. Most of the time, prosecutors charge with the higher level right out of the gate if they see any Indication of impairment.
Vehicular assault penalties divide into the criminal sentence, the driver’s license consequences, and the long-term collateral costs. The criminal ranges below are the presumptive felony ranges for offenses committed on or after July 1, 2020, under C.R.S. 18-1.3-401.
A felony conviction is not the only consequence. A vehicular assault that involved alcohol or drugs triggers the separate Colorado DMV administrative process, which can revoke your driving privileges independent of the criminal case and on its own timeline. The criminal court can also order restitution, requiring you to pay the injured person’s medical bills, lost wages, and other documented losses, and in a serious-injury crash those numbers are often substantial. Probation, if granted, comes with conditions such as monitored sobriety, treatment, and community service.
The collateral consequences reach further than the sentence. A felony conviction is a permanent record that can cost you the right to possess a firearm, eligibility for many jobs and professional licenses, housing, and security clearances. For drivers who hold a commercial license, a vehicular assault conviction can end a career. Because the conviction itself carries these costs, the goal in many cases is to avoid the felony, not only to reduce the sentence.
People searching for help often blur these terms, but Colorado treats them as separate crimes with different elements and very different exposure. Knowing which one actually fits the facts can change the entire case.
Vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205 requires serious bodily injury to another person. Vehicular homicide under C.R.S. 18-3-106 requires a death, and it carries far heavier penalties: DUI vehicular homicide is a class 3 felony and reckless vehicular homicide is a class 4 felony. The line between the two charges is the outcome of the injury, which is why the medical evidence about whether an injury was life-threatening or permanent can be decisive.
At the other end, reckless driving and careless driving are traffic offenses, not felonies, when no serious injury results. Careless driving that causes injury or death is a more serious traffic offense, but it is still not vehicular assault unless the driving was reckless or impaired and the injury was serious. A common and favorable outcome in these cases is a negotiated reduction from felony vehicular assault to a careless driving traffic offense, which removes the felony record and the prison exposure.
One more clarification, because people search for it: Colorado has no offense called “vehicular aggravated assault” or “aggravated vehicular assault.” The statute is simply vehicular assault, graded by whether the driving was impaired or reckless. If you have seen that phrase, it is describing the Colorado offense under C.R.S. 18-3-205, and the first step is identifying the exact subsection you are charged under.
Vehicular assault cases are built on physical evidence and expert opinion rather than eyewitness intent, because intent is not an element. As former prosecutors, our attorneys know the case is usually assembled from three sources: the accident reconstruction, the chemical evidence of impairment, and the medical records describing the injury. Each is contestable.
Causation is the first pressure point. The state has to prove your driving was the proximate cause of the injury, and serious crashes often involve more than one contributing factor, another driver, road conditions, a mechanical failure, or the injured person’s own conduct. An intervening or superseding cause can break the chain the prosecution needs. The accident reconstruction that assigns fault is an opinion built on assumptions about speed, point of impact, and timing, and those assumptions can be challenged by a defense expert.
The impairment evidence is the second pressure point, and it is the heart of the strict liability version. Blood draws have chain-of-custody and timing requirements, the two-hour testing window and rising-blood-alcohol issues that arise in any DUI case apply here too, and a stop or search that violated your rights can lead to suppression of the result. If the impairment evidence is excluded or undermined, the class 4 felony often cannot stand. Gannon Becker, for example, secured a complete dismissal of a DUI built on body camera violations, the kind of evidentiary problem that can collapse the impairment side of a vehicular assault case.
The injury classification is the third. “Serious bodily injury” is a legal standard, not a medical one, and whether a particular injury meets it under C.R.S. 18-1-901 can be disputed with the treating records. If the injury does not rise to serious bodily injury, the felony does not fit. We also examine how the evidence was gathered, because statements taken in violation of your rights and unlawfully obtained test results can be suppressed.
Every case is different, but the defenses that come up most often in Colorado vehicular assault cases include:
These are a few of the many vehicular, DUI, and serious-crash cases our attorneys have resolved. Every case is different and past results do not guarantee a particular outcome, but they show the kind of work we do.
You can read more in our case studies and client reviews.
Our former-prosecutor bench has handled vehicular and DUI-related cases from both sides of the courtroom. Our attorneys move quickly to get ahead of the prosecution: we obtain the accident reconstruction, the chemical testing records, and the medical records, and we have them reviewed by independent experts. We pin down the causation theory and look for an intervening cause, we examine the legality of the stop and the blood draw for a suppression motion, we test whether the injury meets the serious bodily injury standard, and we open conversations with the district attorney about reducing a felony vehicular assault to a careless or reckless driving traffic offense before the case builds momentum. No lawyer can guarantee a result, but early, informed defense work is what creates options.
If you or someone you love has been charged with vehicular assault in Colorado, the next decision matters. Talk to a criminal defense attorney before you speak with police or prosecutors again. Right Law Group offers a free, confidential consultation, and we will review the state’s evidence with you and explain exactly where you stand. Call or text 719-822-6227.
Yes. Vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205 is always a felony in Colorado. The DUI version is a class 4 felony, and the reckless version is a class 5 felony.
There is no misdemeanor version of vehicular assault. What changes is the felony class, which depends on whether the driving was impaired by alcohol or drugs or was reckless. A class 4 felony carries 2 to 6 years in prison, and a class 5 felony carries 1 to 3 years. If no serious bodily injury resulted, the conduct is not vehicular assault at all; it may be a reckless or careless driving traffic offense instead.
Because the charge is a felony either way, the most important early question is whether the felony can be challenged or reduced, which is the first thing to map out with a criminal defense lawyer.
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A strict liability offense is one where the prosecution does not have to prove you intended anything. In DUI vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205, the state only proves that you were under the influence, that you drove, and that your driving caused serious bodily injury.
This matters because it removes the usual defense based on intent or care. You cannot defeat the DUI version by showing you were driving safely or that the crash was an accident, because there is no mental-state element to disprove. The strict liability structure is the same one Colorado uses for DUI vehicular homicide. The reckless version of vehicular assault is different: it does require proof of a culpable mental state, namely recklessness.
Because intent is not in play in the DUI version, the defense focuses on the facts the state still must prove: the impairment evidence and the causation theory.
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The difference is the outcome. Vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205 requires serious bodily injury to another person, while vehicular homicide under C.R.S. 18-3-106 requires a death.
The penalties reflect that gap. Vehicular assault is a class 4 felony in its DUI form and a class 5 felony in its reckless form. Vehicular homicide is far more serious: DUI vehicular homicide is a class 3 felony carrying 4 to 12 years, and reckless vehicular homicide is a class 4 felony. Both statutes use the same two routes, impairment and recklessness, and both make the DUI version a strict liability crime.
Because the dividing line is whether the injury caused death, the medical evidence and the cause-of-injury analysis are central to which charge applies.
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Serious bodily injury is defined in C.R.S. 18-1-901 as an injury that involves a substantial risk of death, a substantial risk of serious permanent disfigurement, a substantial risk of protracted loss or impairment of any body part or organ, or that involves breaks, fractures, or second or third degree burns.
This is a legal standard, not a medical diagnosis, and it is one of the most contested elements of a vehicular assault charge. An injury that is painful but does not meet the statutory definition is bodily injury, not serious bodily injury, and that distinction can take the felony off the table. Because the line is drawn in the treating records and the doctors’ descriptions, the medical evidence is often where this fight happens.
If the injury does not meet the serious bodily injury standard, the vehicular assault charge does not fit, which is why an early, independent review of the medical records matters.
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It depends on the version. DUI vehicular assault is a class 4 felony carrying 2 to 6 years in prison, and the reckless version is a class 5 felony carrying 1 to 3 years, under the presumptive ranges in C.R.S. 18-1.3-401.
The class 4 felony also carries 3 years of mandatory parole and a fine of $2,000 to $500,000, while the class 5 felony carries 2 years of mandatory parole and a fine of $1,000 to $100,000. These ranges are presumptive starting points. Aggravating or mitigating circumstances, the strength of the evidence, and whether the charge is reduced all shape the real outcome, and probation is possible in some cases rather than prison.
Because the numbers are starting points and not predictions, the value of an early defense is in changing which charge and which range you are actually facing.
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Yes, and it is one of the most valuable outcomes in these cases. When the evidence of impairment, recklessness, or causation is weak, a felony vehicular assault can sometimes be negotiated down to a careless or reckless driving traffic offense, which removes the felony record and the prison exposure.
The reduction usually turns on a problem in the state’s proof, a contested causation theory, a suppressible blood draw, or driving that was careless rather than reckless. Jimmy Litle and Alexis Austin Litle reduced a DUI-related vehicular assault to a careless driving traffic offense in exactly this kind of case. Every case is different and past results do not guarantee an outcome, but the path exists.
Whether a reduction is realistic depends on the specific evidence, which is what an experienced defense lawyer evaluates first.
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Yes. The impairment versions of vehicular assault cover being under the influence of, or impaired by, any drug, including a prescription medication, not only alcohol or illegal drugs.
Colorado’s impaired-driving law does not distinguish between an illegal drug and a lawfully prescribed one. If a medication impaired your ability to drive safely and your driving caused serious bodily injury, the strict liability DUI version of the charge can apply. The same is true for a combination of alcohol and medication. This catches people off guard, because they assume a valid prescription is a defense; it is not a defense to impaired driving.
Whether the medication actually impaired you to the level the statute requires is a factual question, and it is one a defense lawyer examines closely with the DUI defense evidence.
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The DUI version is a class 4 felony and a strict liability crime, while the reckless version is a class 5 felony that requires the state to prove recklessness. The mental-state burden is the key difference. C.R.S. 18-3-205 writes both into one statute.
In the DUI version, the prosecution does not have to prove any culpable mental state, only impairment, driving, and causation. In the reckless version, the prosecution must prove you consciously disregarded a substantial and unjustifiable risk, which is a higher bar than ordinary carelessness. That extra burden is why reckless vehicular assault is a class 5 rather than a class 4, and why the recklessness finding is a frequent point of contest.
The practical effect is that the two versions are defended differently: the DUI version turns on impairment and causation, while the reckless version turns on whether the driving really was reckless.
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No. Colorado has no offense formally called “aggravated vehicular assault” or “vehicular aggravated assault.” The crime is simply vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205, graded by whether the driving was impaired or reckless.
The phrase shows up constantly in searches because some other states use “aggravated” labels for serious vehicular crimes. In Colorado, the equivalent conduct is prosecuted as either the class 4 DUI version or the class 5 reckless version of vehicular assault. The label does not match a Colorado statute, so it does not change what the state has to prove.
Because the informal term does not map to a Colorado charge, the first step is identifying the exact subsection of the statute you are actually charged under, which a defense lawyer can confirm quickly.
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Possibly, and through a separate process. A vehicular assault that involved alcohol or drugs triggers the Colorado DMV administrative revocation process, which runs independent of the criminal case under the same express-consent rules that apply to a DUI.
The DMV action and the criminal charge are two different proceedings with different deadlines and different decision-makers. You can request a DMV hearing to contest the revocation, but the request has a short deadline, often just a few days after the arrest, and missing it usually means an automatic revocation. The criminal court can also impose license consequences as part of a sentence. For drivers with a commercial license, the stakes are higher still.
Because the DMV deadline is so short and separate from the criminal case, addressing it early with a DUI defense lawyer is important.
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Likely yes, if you are convicted. Colorado courts order restitution in vehicular assault cases to compensate the injured person for documented losses such as medical bills, lost wages, and other out-of-pocket costs.
In a serious-injury crash, those costs can be large, because the statute requires the injury to be serious bodily injury, which usually means significant medical treatment. Restitution is separate from any fine paid to the court and separate from a civil lawsuit the injured person may file. The amount is set by the court based on proof of the losses.
Because restitution can outlast the sentence financially, understanding the full exposure, criminal and civil, is part of an early case evaluation.
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Yes. A criminal vehicular assault case and a civil lawsuit are separate. The injured person can file a civil lawsuit to recover damages regardless of what happens in the criminal case.
The two cases have different standards of proof. The criminal case requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt, while a civil case requires only a preponderance of the evidence, so it is possible to face civil liability even if the criminal charge is reduced or dismissed. Court-ordered restitution in the criminal case may offset some civil damages, but it does not bar the civil suit. The cases often proceed on separate timelines.
Because what you say in the criminal case can be used in the civil case, coordinating both with counsel matters.
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The prosecution must prove that you drove a motor vehicle, that your driving was either impaired by alcohol or drugs or reckless, and that your driving was the proximate cause of serious bodily injury to another person. In the DUI version, no intent is required.
Each of those elements is a separate target for the defense. The impairment element depends on the chemical testing and the legality of the stop and blood draw. The recklessness element, in the reckless version, requires proof of a conscious disregard of a known risk, not mere carelessness. The causation element requires that your driving directly and foreseeably caused the injury, which an intervening cause can break. And the injury must meet the serious bodily injury standard in C.R.S. 18-1-901.
Because each element can be contested, the charge filed at arrest is often not the charge that holds up, which is why early defense work changes the trajectory.
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Yes, dismissal is possible, usually when the state’s evidence on impairment, recklessness, or causation has a serious problem. A suppressed blood draw, a broken causation theory, or an injury that does not meet the serious bodily injury standard can all lead to dismissal or a major reduction.
Our attorneys have obtained dismissals and major reductions in serious driving cases. Gannon Becker secured a complete dismissal of a DUI over body camera violations, and Jimmy Litle had a DUI from a three-car accident dismissed. Every case is different and past results do not guarantee an outcome, but the same evidentiary problems that drive those results can apply to a vehicular assault case.
Whether dismissal is realistic depends on the specific evidence, which is exactly what a defense lawyer evaluates first.
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It can matter, because the state has to prove your driving was the proximate cause of the injury. Evidence that another driver, a road hazard, or a vehicle defect contributed to or actually caused the crash can break the causation chain the vehicular assault charge depends on.
Colorado recognizes the defense of an intervening or superseding cause, an event that comes between your driving and the injury and becomes the real cause. This is a fact-intensive issue that usually turns on the accident reconstruction, and a defense expert can challenge the assumptions the state’s reconstruction relied on. In the strict liability DUI version, causation is one of the few elements left to fight, which makes it especially important.
Because fault in a multi-vehicle crash is rarely one-sided, an independent reconstruction is often a priority in the first weeks.
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The difference is how the injury was caused. Vehicular assault under C.R.S. 18-3-205 involves a motor vehicle and does not require intent in its DUI form, while the assault statutes generally require a culpable mental state toward causing injury.
Colorado’s general assault charges, first degree, second degree, and third degree, turn on intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly causing injury, often with a deadly weapon. Vehicular assault is a distinct offense built around the act of driving and the resulting serious bodily injury. Because the DUI version is strict liability, it does not require the kind of intent the general assault statutes do.
If you are facing a charge that names both assault and a vehicle, sorting out exactly which statute applies is an early defense priority.
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Vehicular assault is a felony, so it is filed in the district court of the county where the crash occurred. For our clients, that usually means the El Paso County courts in the 4th Judicial District, the Douglas County courts in the 18th Judicial District, or the Denver courts in the 2nd Judicial District.
Each district has its own prosecutors and its own tendencies in how serious driving cases are charged and resolved. A felony case typically includes a preliminary hearing where the prosecution has to show probable cause, an early stage where the causation and injury elements can be tested. Knowing the local court and the prosecutors who staff it is part of how a defense lawyer approaches the case.
Where your case is filed shapes both the procedure and the realistic options, so it is one of the first things to clarify.
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Do not talk to the police about how the crash happened, and ask for a lawyer. In a vehicular assault case, statements about your driving, your drinking, or your medication are among the most damaging evidence the prosecution uses, especially in the strict liability DUI version.
People often try to explain the crash, believing that cooperation will help, but in a serious-injury investigation those explanations are easily turned into proof of impairment or causation. Politely declining to answer questions and asking for an attorney is not an admission of guilt; it is the protection the law gives you. If chemical testing is requested, the express-consent rules that apply to a DUI apply here too, and the consequences of refusal are significant.
The most important step now is to stop discussing the crash and get counsel involved before the prosecution locks in its theory.
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Yes. You do not have to be impaired to face vehicular assault. The reckless version under C.R.S. 18-3-205 applies when reckless driving, not impairment, causes serious bodily injury, and it is a class 5 felony.
Recklessness means consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk, such as extreme speeding, racing, or driving in a way the driver knew was dangerous. The state does not need any alcohol or drug evidence for this version. The contest in a reckless case is usually whether the driving rose to recklessness or was instead ordinary careless driving, which is a traffic offense rather than a felony.
Because that line between reckless and careless is where the case is often won or reduced, the specific driving facts matter enormously.
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It varies. A felony vehicular assault case often takes six months to a year or longer, particularly when it involves accident reconstruction, expert review, and contested motions, and longer still if it proceeds toward trial.
The timeline depends on the complexity of the evidence, the court’s schedule, and whether the case is negotiated or tried. These cases tend to involve more expert work than a typical DUI, because the causation and injury elements often require independent reconstruction and medical review. Felony cases also include additional stages, such as a preliminary hearing, that add time. Moving quickly on the defense does not necessarily shorten the case, but it shapes the options.
Your lawyer can give you a realistic timeline once the evidence and the charged version are clear.
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It helps. Vehicular assault cases are resolved in the county where they are filed, in front of local prosecutors and judges, so a lawyer who regularly works in that courthouse understands how these cases tend to go there. Right Law Group practices throughout the Front Range.
We defend vehicular and serious-crash cases in Colorado Springs and El Paso County, Castle Rock and Douglas County, Denver, Highlands Ranch, and the surrounding counties. Local familiarity with the district attorney’s office that filed your case informs how we approach negotiation and motions.
A free consultation is the place to find out how your specific county and court are likely to handle the charge.
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Your first appearance is an advisement, where the court tells you the charges and your rights, addresses bond, and sets conditions of release. You are not required to enter a plea or explain your side at this stage.
At the advisement the judge sets bond and may impose conditions, such as monitored sobriety or a no-drive order while the case is pending. Because vehicular assault is a felony, the case then moves through district court, often with a preliminary hearing where the prosecution has to show probable cause for the causation and injury elements. You should not discuss the facts of the crash in open court, because anything you volunteer can be used later.
Having a lawyer at or before the first appearance helps with bond arguments and keeps you from saying something that harms the case.
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Vehicular assault is frequently filed alongside the underlying driving offense and related charges. Common companions are DUI or DWAI, reckless driving, careless driving, leaving the scene, and, where a death results, vehicular homicide.
Because the same crash gives rise to several possible charges, prosecutors often stack them, which raises the overall exposure and the pressure to plead. A DUI count and a vehicular assault count, for example, frequently travel together when impairment is alleged. Resolving the felony often depends on what happens with the charges attached to it.
A defense lawyer looks at the whole set of charges together, because the strategy on the lead charge shapes the rest.
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It is a real risk, especially for jobs that involve driving. A felony vehicular assault conviction appears on background checks and can affect professional licenses, security clearances, and any position that requires a clean driving record.
For commercial drivers, the stakes are highest, because a vehicular assault conviction can end the ability to hold a commercial license. Beyond the immediate job, a felony record can limit future employment and housing for years, which is part of why the goal in many cases is to avoid the felony conviction itself rather than only to reduce the sentence. The collateral consequences often outlast the criminal penalty.
Because the conviction, not just the sentence, carries these costs, fighting for a reduction below the felony level is frequently the central objective.
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A former prosecutor knows how the other side proves impairment, recklessness, and causation in a serious-crash case, because they used to build those cases. They understand how charging decisions are made, where prosecutors overreach on causation or the injury element, and what evidence problems make a district attorney willing to reduce or dismiss.
At Right Law Group, our attorneys served as Colorado prosecutors before moving to the defense side. That experience shapes how we attack the accident reconstruction, the blood draw, and the serious bodily injury classification. Jimmy Litle and Alexis Austin Litle reduced a DUI-related vehicular assault to a traffic offense, a few of the many results in our case studies.
No lawyer can guarantee an outcome, but insider knowledge of the prosecution’s playbook is a real advantage in a vehicular case. A free consultation is the place to start.
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