Aiding and Abetting Traffic Offense

Aiding and Abetting a Traffic Offense can be charged in any situation where the facts meet the elements below. For example, prosecutors have used this statute to charge individuals who have knowingly given an unlicensed driver permission to drive their vehicle.

RCW: 46.64.048

Classification: Same as underlying offense

Elements: Every person who commits, attempts to commit, conspires to commit, or aids or abets in the commission of any act declared by this title to be a traffic infraction or a crime, whether individually or in connection with one or more other persons or as principal, agent, or accessory, shall be guilty of such offense, and every person who falsely, fraudulently, forcefully, or willfully induces, causes, coerces, requires, permits or directs others to violate any provisions of this title is likewise guilty of such offense.

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