Powers v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• reversing appellant’s reckless driving conviction where the Court had “no way of - 15 - determining from the evidence in [the] record how and why the accident happened”
• interpreting Code § 46.1-189, the predecessor statute to Code § 46.2-852
• mere happening of an accident does not give rise to an inference of reckless driving
• mere happening of an accident does not give rise to an inference of reckless driving
• “The word ‘recklessly’ . . . imparts a disregard by the driver of a motor vehicle for the consequences of his act and an indifference to the safety of life, limb or property.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).