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When the author of the crime had no animus nocendi, it is usually considered that the crime still exists, but the author is innocent, unless a responsibility for guilt can be found in his conduct: the typical case of a car accident in which a wrong or even hazardous manoeuvre causes personal injuries to another car driver, is then managed as a crime for the presence of injuries, yet the author will not be prosecuted as the author of the injuries ( he did not want to hurt the other driver, thus he had no animus nocendi ), but simply as the author of a dangerous conduct that indirectly caused said effects, and would be held responsible at a guilt title.