Screenplay writer Roger Avary is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter and two additional felony counts in connection with a fatal crash. The author of the screenplays for "Pulp Fiction" and the recent major release "Beowulf" was driving drunk when he killed a passenger and injured his wife in a rural Ojai car crash.Ventura
If alcohol was involved, prosecutors tend to charge the drinking party with vehicular manslaughter even if s/he was not at fault, and even if the accident was unavoidable. Police, biased as they are against drunk drivers, jump to the conclusion that the drinking party was at fault. Police and CHP collision reports tend to be hastily prepared, and slanted against the intoxicated driver.
