Originally Posted by
law dawg
I don't think so, otherwise any time you're in a wreck someone would go to jail for assault.
General criminal intent refers to the intent to perform the act. Assault is a general intent crime. You do not need to form a specific criminal intent, you just need to intend to perform that act which constitutes the assault.
Being in am accident is not an assault because you do not intend to bdrive your car into another. (Excepting, of course, when you do, and then that is assault, among other things.)