Homicide by negligent operation of vehicle
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 215 Wis. 2d 487 - State v. Sample (1998)
Most recently applied in Ruderman v. Whitaker (January 2019)
1987 a. 399; 1997 a. 295; 2001 a. 109.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Whoever causes the death of another human being by the negligent operation or handling of a vehicle is guilty of a Class G felony.
(2) Whoever causes the death of an unborn child by the negligent operation or handling of a vehicle is guilty of a Class G felony.
Official source: Wisconsin State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wisconsin statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.