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A criminal offence of Causing a Traffic Accident through Neg-ligence is one of the four negligent offences in the Criminal Code of the Republic of Slovenia.Negligent offences have certain characteristics, which should be specially pointed out. The act of accomplishment in negligent offences is manifested as a breach of due care (breach of duty of care) and it is in these criminal offences of crucial importance, be-cause it constitutes the ethical ground for the punishability of these offences. The next characteristic of negligent offences is a harm inf-licting consequence (a harm done to the protected good), which is considered as an essential element in the structure of these offences. What is further specific for these offences is a causal relationship, because a causal relationship between a breach of due care and the resulting prohibited consequence is treated in different way than in typical intentional offences. Culpability in negligent offences is as-sessed by the rules applied to prove the ordinary negligence.