Necessity criminal law examples

Common legal examples of necessity includes: breaking windows and other objects in order to escape a fire, commandeering a vehicle to serve as an emergency ambulance, ignoring traffic rules while rushing a dying patient to a hospital, and even killing a person who poses an immediate threat to several other people not

The principle of necessity, that the nominal criminal act may be the proper act under certain circumstances, is an accepted concept within the criminal legal system. An example of this type of defense would involve a case in which a driver on a narrow road hits a hiker in order to avoid driving off a cliff.