For example if you hit someone from behind you may be deemed at fault.

Is hitting someone with a car assault. Examples of assault include swinging a baseball bat at someone but not hitting them waving your fist at someone without making contact and pointing a gun loaded or not at someone while they are aware that you are pointing a gun at them. PA courts have been clear that your car is just as much of a weapon as a knife or a gun. A car can be a deadly weapon.

If you accidentally assaulted someone without intending to do so your conduct does not qualify as an assault with a deadly weapon. An Oroville man was arrested for intentionally hitting someone with his car causing serious injuries. If there was nothing other than a minor injury or bruised ego the it sounds as if the person throwing the punch would be charged with an assault in the fourth degree a gross misdemeanor for which she would be facing a 364 day maximum sentence.

You do not have to actually hurt someone to be convicted of battery. He is guilty of dangerous driving drink driving and assault by beating but surely these are not reflecting the full gravity of intentionally driving a car at someone at speed. This isnt completely cut and dried but in my opinion striking someone with the door of a stopped vehicle is either simple assault or self-defense.

You can get an estimate from a body shop and sue him in small claims court. The totality of the circumstances are going to matter. The actual impact transforms the offence into Battery.

So if the person in the car believed they were likely to be injured if the attack continues then yes it would be assault. The answer depends to some degree on the severity of injury suffered by the man punched if any. In England Assault or common assault is committed if one intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence.

Common assault or battery normally involves the unlawful touching of a person where they have not silently consented ie. Thats a battery whether you hurt them or not but its not an assault if they didnt see you coming and were not afraid of getting hit. If you swung a bat intending to hit a baseball but you accidentally hit the person standing behind you you did not commit an assault with a deadly weapon because you did not do so willfully.