In some states, negligent homicide charges are possible following the killing of a person while driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
[5][6] The crash of Aeroperú Flight 603 near Lima, Peru resulted in a negligent homicide conviction.
An employee had left a piece of duct tape over the static ports on the bottom side of the fuselage while cleaning, which caused the crash.
[7] The death of Anneliese Michel, a German woman with epileptic psychosis who died of malnutrition while undergoing an extensive series of exorcism rites, resulted in negligent homicide convictions against her parents and two priests.
The train crash in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster in the USSR, killing 106 people, was caused by the criminal negligence of two railroad mechanics who failed to check the brakes of a freight train properly.