California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Cowan, G053969 (Cal. App. 2018):
Moreover, the circumstances surrounding the collision were such as to alert appellant to the mayhem she had caused. She hit the victims head on, and the impact from the crash not only sent the victims flying into the air, it caused major damage to the front end and windshield of her car. Drunk as she was, it's hard to imagine appellant did not realize she had been involved in some sort of accident. (See People v. Harbert, supra, 170 Cal.App.4th at pp. 55-56 [defendant's knowledge of accident could be inferred from the damage to his vehicle].) Certainly we cannot quarrel with the jury's inference to that effect.
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