Teens sent to Earth from a dying space station launch flares in the hopes that their people in space will see them and realize that they are alive. Unfortunately, the flares land in a nearby village and burn it down, which is seen as an act of war.
The local Well-Intentioned Extremist planned to kill Clarke, whose relationship with his leader Lexa he saw as a threat to her safety, but accidentally shot Lexa.
Aishiteru: What happened between Kiyotaka and Tomoya was a children's fight gone horribly out of hand. It led to Kiyotaka's death.
Features this in the episode "Twenty Two". In it the Villain Protagonist is ecstatic at being arrested for robbing a candy store with a toy gun because he believes it will give him respect and notoriety among his friends. His cell mate is horrified to learn that this is his first offense and pleads with him to apologize and promise not to do it again, but all of his pleas fall on deaf ears. Upon being questioned a second time, the officer asks Twenty Two why he had to hit the man he robbed. Only then does his smug and jovial demeanor start to crack and he tells the officer that he never harmed the owner until he started screaming and wouldn't shut up. He states that all they have to do is go to the hospital and ask him. The officer replies that he can't because the man died from a fractured skull. Twenty-Two enters a state of shock and constantly repeats "I Didn't Mean to Kill Him" while his cellmate says he sure picked a good offense for a first crime.
This also occurs in the episode "Jonathan" It deals with the death of the eponymous father and the investigation of his son Gil. The two were extraordinarily close. Before his death, Jonathan insisted that Gil go back to college and make friends his own age. Gil refused to do so and after a little prodding discovered that Jonathan plans to marry a young woman named Rosine and thus wants Gil to start living his own life. Gil is filled with hatred for Rosine, but he softens up enough to buy her a bottle of wine before heading to Mexico with one of the few friends he's made only for Jonathan to die a short time later. Convinced that Rosine murdered him, Gil quits school and tries to discover how. This culminates in Rosine explaining that Jonathan hardly ever treated her like a wife and was overjoyed when he heard that Gil was coming home from Mexico to the point that he started planning all sorts of activities that didn't include her. She adds that he also decided to drink a little wine from the bottle Gil gifted her for their wedding (Which she hadn't touched because it looked tampered with.) Gil realizes that in trying to poison Rosine, he murdered his own father and breaks down sobbing. She promises not to turn him in to the police because after all, he'll have to live knowing that for the rest of his life.
Andor. Cassian's problems start in the first episode when a couple of Pre-Mor guards start harassing him for a shakedown. While trying to escape, Cassian throws one against a nearby wall but breaks the guard's neck doing so. He then has to kill the other to Leave No Witnesses.
Are You Afraid of the Dark?: In "The Tale of the Night Nurse", a girl begins to experience the death of a young woman many years ago at the hands of a murderous nurse. However, it turned out the dead girl was allergic to penicillin and wore a medic alert bracelet that fell off by accident. When the girl finds the bracelet and shows it to the nurse, the nurse angrily chides her for taking it off, saying she might have killed her. This changes time and the dead girl goes on to live a full life.
The Arrangement (2017): It's revealed in season 1 that Megan accidentally killed her stepbrother when she confronted him about him raping her when they were children, and he got so angry he attacked her and she kills him while trying to defend herself. She manages to escape the place and one of his friends gets wrongfully arrested instead of her. When Terence finds out he considers this a breach of her marriage contract, due to it possibly bringing bad attention to Kyle and he has her taken to The Facility for Brainwashing.
Ash vs. Evil Dead: A member of the Knights of Sumeria once visited Brock Williams to tell him that his son Ash is The Chosen One. Brock didn't buy a word of it and accidentally shoved the guy down a flight of stairs, apparently killing him. He just boards up the basement door and forgets about it. When Ash opens up the door years later to investigate, it turns out that the fall didn't actually kill the guy, since he still had enough time to draw a set of spells on the wall.
Banjun Drama: In "Rival," a fight between the titular rivals, Min-ho and Jin-woo, leads to Jin-woo causing Min-ho to fall to his death. Since (although unbeknownst to himself) Jin-woo also ends up dying in the same way, this also counts as an Accidental Suicide.
Believe: This is Dani's tragic backstory. Her older brother stole her diary, she got mad and lost control of hertelekinetic powers, knocking over a loaded bookcase on top of him.
Big Sky: Alan kills Paul while they're struggling inadvertently in "All Kinds of Snakes", pushing him back into a taxidermy deer head, whose antlers he gets impaled on.
In Bones, a man is killed while having an argument with a colleague, who pushes him, not realizing that there is a plane propeller spinning up behind the former. This would not be a murder, except the accidental killer and his wife then decided to cover it up by dropping the body from a plane.
The Boys (2019): Superhero A-Train accidentally kills Hughie Campbell's girlfriend by colliding with her at Super-Speed. Though this wasn't intentional, it was reckless and he shows zero remorse. It might actually qualify as murder legally, as he's under the influence of V at the time (or at least manslaughter), but he lies about what actually happened and most just take his word for it. Hughie is then recruited by Butcher, who explains that hundreds of people are accidentally killed by superheroes each year.
Brave New World: The Director is accidentally killed by John when struggling with him on the edge of a cliff, over which he falls to his death.
A fair amount of the deaths which occur in The Brittas Empire are examples of this. For example, the episode “The Trial” has Brittas, glued to a chainsaw and trying to help a gangster who is unconscious on the other side of the door, accidentally cut his head off with said chainsaw instead.
Warren tries to knock Katrina out by hitting her over the head, but she dies.
Earlier in the show, an Accidental Murder is the cause of Faith's Face–Heel Turn.
And then there's the worst case of Type 2; Warren fires wildly into the air after having shot Buffy, hitting Tara through the window and driving Willow insane with grief.
On Castle, one Victim of the Week turned out to have been having an argument with a client that was angry, but not bloodthirsty. The killer pushed her backward — not realizing she would fall and be impaled on the spikes of a tiny garden below.
The explanation for a good chunk of the murders on Cold Case. The final flashback often reveals that the killer accidentally shoved the victim to his or her death in the course of an argument or struggle.
Columbo has this as plot sometimes, usually because two characters are arguing, it becomes a physical altercation, and someone falls over and dies from head trauma. In one case, the involuntary death was photographed by a friend-turned-blackmailer who ends up intentionally murdered with a staged suicide scene.
Gerry accidentally kills Luis, who dies after he lingers in a coma from striking his head when knocked down by a punch.
Javier accidentally murders a teammate of his, who falls off a balcony and hits the floor, which kills him instantly.
In the midst of a struggle between Sofía, Javier, María, Claudia and Raúl over his stolen money, Susana accidentally falls off the school's rooftop trying to break them up, cracking her head open and killing her in the impact.
Most unsubs on Criminal Minds fully intend to kill their victims, but every so often there's one who plans on using them for something else and doesn't realize it's fatal. Some examples are a mad doctor who thought he'd developed a method of leg transplants, whose victims died from various complications; a killer who repeatedly resuscitated his victims to interrogate them about their near-death experiences and just went too far; and a mentally ill woman who just wanted a set of dolls but used paralyzed women, whose brains shut down from lack of stimulation.
Criminologist Himura and Mystery Writer Arisugawa: In one of the cases, the victim's wife throws a heavy ornament at him after he tells her how much he regrets marrying her. The blow is fatal, and in a panic the wife hides his body in a secret room behind the bookshelf. The case then takes a turn for the weird when his body seems to disappear.
An episode involves the murder of a famous poker player known as the Candyman. Several people want to get back at him for something, but all of them deny responsibility for his death. One drink server admits to putting eye drops in his drink, but only to give him diarrhea. The connection is that the Candyman's favorite table munchies were a certain type of chocolate piece made from chocolate from West Africa, where they still use leaded gasoline. Thus, combined with a bullet in his leg that had never been removed, there was enough lead in his system that he would have eventually died of lead poisoning. However, the eyedrops managed to spike his blood pressure enough to trigger the result: literal death by chocolate.
Another episode deals with a college student who goes missing the night she is supposed to return home. It turns out she was cleaning out her dorm room, went to empty her trash, and accidentally dropped the trashcan down the chute. Knowing she wouldn't get her security deposit back if the trashcan was missing, she tried to retrieve it from the outside dumpster. Unfortunately for her, a passing motorist just so happened to accidentally ram the dumpster at the precise moment she had climbed up the back and was leaning into it, pinning her between it and a back wall and crushing her. She later fell into the dumpster where she bled to death. Her body was fed unnoticed into the trash compactor.
Her parents refuse to listen to this explanation, convinced that she was murdered by someone. It's human nature to want to blame something (or someone) specific instead of a series of unlikely events. Grissom is actually confused by this, as facts are everything to him.
And then there's the guy who slipped on Jello and in the process accidentally stabbed his wife with a shard of glass.
Same episode, same guy. One of his neighbors saw him kill his wife. When he tried to stop her from calling the police, he accidentally ran her head-first into her phone, killing her as well.
Same episode, same guy. During his childhood, he accidentally cut off the oxygen to his grandmother's nasal cannula (nose-tube thingy), causing her to suffocate.
Also the Season Two episode where two men got into a heated argument over the sale of their shared-ownership land, and the first punched the second in the chest — unwittingly causing cardiac arrhythmia and stopping his heart.
Then there was the Firing in the Air a Lot case where a stray bullet shot accidentally into the air (instead of a target in the shooter's backyard) ended up killing someone halfway across town.
In early seasons, especially, these types of accidental slayings were pretty common. Especially when perpetrated by a guileless party, like a child or someone just going about his business. Sometimes it would cause the investigators to angst over the necessity of upholding the law despite their sympathy for the "murderer."
A shootout in a mini-mart results in all the crooks dead. Unfortunately, an innocent bystander is also shot during the firefight. It turns out that the cop was aiming for the crook who was running and shot at him at the exact moment he was passing the bystander. The bullet hit the crook, came out the other side and killed the woman. The cop got a commendation for his actions.
And there was the episode where an angry woman walked into a sliding glass door so hard she shattered it, and the glass pierced her neck, causing her to bleed out in minutes. Her sister threatened to blame the dead woman's ex-con boyfriend; he didn't take it well.
In "Stoned Cold", this is revealed to be the cause of death of the Alpha BitchVictim of the Week. A trio of parents of the kids she had bullied merely wanted to teach her a lesson so they abducted her, tied her to a goalpost on the school football field, and forced her to listen to the guidance conselor sessions of the students she had tormented. Unfortunately, she was unremorseful and unapologetic, even continuing to call the kids losers to their parents' faces, enraging the parents to the point they started throwing stones at her to make her shut up, inadvertently killing her.
Danny takes his neighbor Ruben to the blessing of the bikes. On their way home, shots ring out. Danny tells the boy to go straight home while turning to help those involved in the robbery. Later the boy's body is brought into an autopsy. Turns out he had been struck by a bullet but didn't realize it at first.
A struggling actor accidentally kills another man when he fired a gun loaded with blanks into him from point-blank range. He only meant to scare him as payback for an earlier incident, but the force from the gun at that distance was still enough to punch a hole into the victim.
CSI: Vegas has a father and son dying in their home of what looks like radiation poisoning. The father had been part of a team trying to bring a nuclear reactor to the area, giving lots of suspects. The team call in Angela, a radiation expert who gets exposed to a seemingly lethal dose. But things seem off as the radiation suddenly vanishes from the house and Josh discovers the "infected blood" of Angela actually belonged to her cat and she wasn't sick at all. It turns out this was all a heist, as the scientist's neighbor was stocking millions of dollars in gold, and Angela wanted it. Her plan was to set up the poison to access the home and then trick the team into helping her steal it away. When arrested, Angela relates her plan went awry as she figured that the scientist would easily recognize the signs of radiation poisoning, get to the hospital and she'd use the neighborhood evacuated to her advantage. Sadly, the scientist turned out to be too stubborn and consumed with work to realize what was happening until it was too late, meaning Angela is now spending the rest of her life in jail.
Dark Desire: In Season 2, it turns out that Darío killed Julieta accidentally while they struggled near the rooftop's edge, and she fell over.
Dead Man's Gun: In "Death Warrant", Bounty Hunter John Pike's troubles start when he gets in a shootout with an outlaw he is pursuing, and one of his wild shots hits and kills a young man in the street.
In the episode "Wish You Weren't Here", the first Victim of the Weekdies after drinking a cup of coffee ordered by her boss. The drugged coffee would not have killed her had she not gone for a swim, where she passed out and drowned. This is what initially confused DI Mooney, as it seemed the murder relied on the murderer knowing the victim would take a midnight swim, which was a spontaneous decision.
In "Tour de Murder", an argument results in a forceful shove that pushes the Victim of the Week over the edge of a bridge into a deep ravine. Attempts to Make It Look Like an Accident actually convince the police that it was murder.
"The Tsuranga Conundrum": Senior medic Astos dies when the Escape Pod he enters is jettisoned by the creature attacking the ship. It turns out the creature, a Pting, is a Non-Malicious Monster which rapaciously feeds on energy and isn't sentient anyways, so it didn't intentionally kill Astos.
"Kerblam!": Charlie, the villain, was abducting random Kerblam! employees to test his bubble wrap bombs, and never meant to kill his crush, Kira. However, the Kerblam! computer system, fighting back against his hacking, gives Kira one of the bombs as a warning to Charlie not to go through with his murderous plot.
On Elsbeth, tennis coach Cliff drugs a towel for superstar player Johann to slow him down so Cliff's son can beat him in a match. But Cliff doesn't know that Johann's girlfriend was giving him "performance" drugs, which interact with the nitroglycerin on the towel and cause Johann to collapse and die on the court. Unlike other killers on the show, Cliff is shown quite shaken by this, openly noting "it was just an accident" to his own distraught son.
Endeavour: In "Canticle", the Rev. Golightly dies when he consumes a box of chocolates intended for Mrs. Pettybon, and a Laxative Prank triggers a fatal heart attack.
The Victim of the Week in "The Resurrectionists" dies as the result of a Staircase Tumble after being shoved by someone who was in a state of shock and definitely not intending to kill him.
Both deaths in "The Theatre of the Invisible". The first occurs when the killer attempts to stage a hero moment that will allow him to rescue a litter of kittens from a burning house. No one was supposed to be home, but the landlady returned home unexpectedly and died of smoke inhalation. The second occurs when someone attempts to blackmail him over the first. He attempts to stop the blackmailer from drunkenly waking everyone in the house, but accidentally smothers him with a teddy bear.
The Victim of the Week in "The Passing Bell" trips and falls on to the blade being held by the man he was attacking.
The F.B.I.: In "The Scourge", a Loan Shark is roughing up the brother of a man who owes him money when the victim suffers a heart attack.
From: Sara ends up accidentally slashing her brother Nathan's throat when he tries to stop her killing Ethan, much to her dismay.
Marie killed her parents accidentally when her powers developed, with them going out of control.
Cate inadvertently killed her little brother as a girl when he'd been annoying her by telling him to go into the woods and never come back. This happened to be the moment her Compelling Voice manifested, and so he did. He was never found.
Ghosts (US): In 1777, Isaac used a gun's scope to admire Nigel from afar. When he sneezed, he accidently pulled the trigger.
In Glue Ruth speculates that Janine's attacker never meant to harm her that badly. She's right. Cal's Plot-Triggering Death also turns out to be a case of accidental murder.
Hemlock Grove: Roman accidentally hits Destiny so hard that she falls through a glass table when she confronts him about her fiancé's death, then breaks her neck since she's already dying. Peter later finds out the truth about his cousin's death, leading to their final fight where Peter kills Roman for good at the cost of becoming a wolf for the rest of his life.
Isaac and Peter are fighting, intending to kill each other, then Simone walks in and gets shot by accident.
Also, when Sylar/Gabriel is attempting to calm down his mother, he accidentally stabs her in the heart with the scissors she was wielding.
Hightown: Renee accidentally shot Jorge in the gut while brandishing her gun at him with her finger on the trigger. He might not have died, but she's too scared to call for help because his cousin Frankie might kill her for it, and lets him die of blood loss.
An old urban legend provides a story for an episode. A young man tries to commit suicide by jumping off a building. As he passes a window, a shotgun is fired inside by one of an arguing couple, and he is hit by the blast.
One episode had Bolander and Munch investigate a teenager who had been beaten to death with a baseball bat. It turned out that the teenager had been killed during a gang initiation ritual, and the gang leader had thought of him as a kindred spirit and hadn't meant to kill him.
When Lord Beesbury denounces the rest of the Small Council's plan to place Aegon on the Iron Throne in usurpation of Rhaenyra's rightful claim, Ser Criston tries to force him back into his seat to shut him up. But in the process, he accidentally pushes him too hard, causing his head to slam down onto the tabletop and directly hit Beesbury's marble of office, cracking his skull and killing him instantly.
Aemond intends to simply scare Lucerys, but neither of them has proper control over their dragon mounts. When Lucerys' dragon breathes fire at Aemond's, the much bigger dragon effortlessly kills them over Aemond's ineffectual protests. He is left with a look of horror, perhaps partially because he never meant to kill his nephew, but also because he knows nobody's going to believe he didn't do it on purpose. Indeed, the books, which are pieced together from multiple Unreliable Narrator historical accounts about the events of the show, all record the killing as an act of spite with claims he mutilated the body.
The I-Land: It turns out that Chase's mother actually died this way, rather than by deliberate murder. Chase didn't even kill her-her husband was fighting over the gun with her mother, and it went off.
Innocent: A flashback reveals that Yusuf and Taner were caught stealing a camera from an elderly homeowner when they were kids. When confronted, Taner whacked the old man over the head, unintentionally killing him. Yusuf has been haunted by the incident since.
Is It Legal?: Colin accidentally kills one of the firm's clients in "Death in Hounslow" when he pushed a pen-stand with two sharp-ended pens over to him. One of them proceeds to lodge in his forehead and he dies as a result.
It's Awfully Bad for Your Eyes, Darling...: When discussing what to do with the passed-out Kenneth in "A New Lease", Virginia tells the others to leave him on the fire escape. Clover is against this, worrying he might fall out, to which Pudding adds that they'll be had up for manslaughter.
The Last Kingdom: Lord Uhtred slapped the sickly monk Brother Godwin after Godwin spoke against him in the witan (after having been paid off by Æthelwold, mind). To everyone's shock (not least Uhtred's), the monk fell dead on the spot. King Alfred eventually sentences Uhtred to pay a weregild to the Church (which Uhtred was fine with) and swear an oath to protect Prince Edward (which the proud and freedom-loving but supremely honourable Uhtred hates, since while he has no problem with Edward as future leader, the prince is much younger than him and so such an oath would bind him for life). This kicks off a series of events that eventually lead to Uhtred being banished from Wessex.
On The Listener a chef dies from an allergic reaction during a TV cooking competition when the cooking implement is laced with peanut oil. The people responsible only wanted to ruin the dish the chef was preparing and had no idea that the victim was allergic to peanuts. The show did not allow anyone with food allergies to compete so the victim lied about having a serious allergy. Also, he would have probably survived the allergic reaction by itself but he also had a serious heart condition that combined with the allergy to kill him.
In Lost, after hearing whispers in the forest, Ana Lucia accidentally shoots Shannon. Later on, while Michael kills Ana in cold blood to let Benjamin Linus escape, Libby walks in and he shoots her in a panic.
In "King's Crystal", Peter Baxter died as a result of getting into a struggle with Ian King while holding the Masonic dagger he'd been using to try and force open a filing cabinet at the King's Crystal factory. In the scuffle he ended up falling and getting impaled on the dagger.
In "Midsomer Life", Charlie Finleyson had been trying to escape from someone who just intended to scare him off when he suffered a fatal heart attack. The attacker hid the body in the woods, and its discovery two weeks later triggered a string of actual murders.
The third Victim of the Week in "Till Death Do Us Part" is shoved by the killer who is trying to intimidate them, only for them to stumble over the edge of the balcony and fall to their death.
The third murder in "Send in the Clowns" turns out to have been accidental—the murderer triggered an alarm system while snooping around a slaughterhouse and jostled a heavy wagon while trying to hide when the victim, Curtis Ferabbee, came around. The wagon went rolling and knocked Curtis on the automaticslaughter line (and left him too dazed to move away before the line went to the gassing room where he is asphyxiated with carbon dioxide).
The first Victim of the Week in "The Point of Balance" suffers a fatal heart attack when her attacker shoves a length of tulle in her mouth and she starts choking. She suffered from an undiagnosed heart defect that made her susceptible to SCD (Sudden Cardiac Death).
In Misfits the protagonists have ended up killing multiple people by accident and would have killed more if Curtis hadn't rewound time to prevent them killing their third probation worker.
Motive: In "Foreign Relations", the killer attempts to slip a mickey to the Victim of the Week so she can interrogate him. However, she gets the dose wrong and he dies of an overdose.
Mouse (2021): Su-ho didn't realise there was anyone still in Jae-hoon's house when he set it on fire. Unfortunately Jae-hoon's brother was still inside.
In "Another Bloody Podcast", a fight between brothers turned deadly when a punch caused one of the participants to fall and hit his head on a paving stone. However, it was a Time-Delayed Death and circumstances conspired to make it look like a hate crime.
In "All That Glitters", the killer only intended to set up an accident that would injure the victim and force them to pull out of the show. However, they did not foresee the 'accident' causing water to leak into the stage lights, resulting in a High-Voltage Death.
Once Upon a Time: Red accidentally kills her mother when the latter tries to kill Snow.
Norma recalls how she became one of several wives to a hippie Cult leader back in The '70s. Two or three decades later, her husband's influence began to wane, the Cult disbanded, and all of Norma's sister-wives had left. So he was feeling distressed and purposeless, urging Norma to leave like all the others. Norma replied that she wouldn't leave him, and he responded by verbally abusing her. Norma became angry, called him a son-of-a-bitch, and gave him a shove...and ended up pushing him off of a cliff to his death. She is currently serving a sentence for manslaughter.
It's revealed in Season 4 that this is the reason Suzanne aka "Crazy Eyes" is in prison. She invited a small child home with her to play video games, unaware of the potential problems this might cause. The more time the kid spends with her, the more nervous he gets until he tries to leave and Suzanne flips out. He climbs out onto the fire escape to get away from her — and falls off to his death.
Poussey's death, though her friends firmly believe it was deliberate.
Piscatella is mistakenly shot in the head by a CERT member inside the prison.
In The Practice, Bobby hires a hitman to intimidate exonerated (but guilty) serial killer William Hinks into ceasing his harassment of Lindsay, but the hitman kills Hinks instead. Bobby is legally responsible for Hinks' death regardless of his instructions to the hitman but is acquitted anyway.
Prey (UK Miniseries): The man who broke into Farrow's home never intended to harm his family, only retrieve the disks that would incriminate Mackenzie in Hassan's murder. However, the scuffles that follow after his presence is revealed resulted in Max falling down the stairs and Abi getting stabbed with the knife she used to try and scare him off.
Psychopath Diary: Played with. Dong-sik and Mu-seok fall down the stairs. When Dong-sik wakes up he finds Mu-seok dead with a knife in his chest. He assumes he accidentally killed him in the fall. Actually In-woo killed Mu-seok while Dong-sik was unconscious.
Scholar Who Walks the Night: Gwi doesn't mean to kill Hye Ryung, but when he lashes out at her he cuts her throat.
The Sinner: The protagonist in the series, who has a sister with a congenital heart issue and a weak sternum, suffers death by a heart attack after engaging in consensual sexual intercourse with others present in the same room, and under the influence of MDMA ("Ecstacy"). Just before, or shortly after she dies, the man attempts to perform CPR, but breaks her sternum in the process. This could quite easily be ruled an accidental death, but those present decide they should "bury the body" because they were "on drugs", and agree nobody would want to "explain that to the cops." Instead, they soberly discuss the course of action to take, which is to bury the protagonist's sister's body next to a bright yellow school bus abandoned in some woods, and then excessively illogically, decide to have the protagonist repeatedly injected with heroin and other drugs until she forgets most of her adolescent life, whereupon she is thrown into an alley in skid row.
Tehran: Tamar, when disguised as Zhila, fends off her (Zhila's) boss during a rape attempt, accidentally killing him.
Vera: The Victim of the Week in "The Deer Hunters" is shot when he attempts to wrestle a rifle away from a friend who was attempting to illegally shoot a stag.
Zig-zagged on The Walking Dead (2010). When Dwightclaims to have shot Denise dead completely by accident, he admits that he was initially aiming to kill Daryl, but the kickback on his crossbow made him miss the initial target.
The Wheel of Time (2021): Perrin kills his wife Laila mistakenly while they're fighting Trollocs beside each other in the confusion, to his grief.
The White Lotus: Armond is killed by Shane due to the latter literally running into him with knife in hand while coming around a corner.
In "Teddy Bears Picnic", the Victim of the Week suffers Death by Falling Over when she hits her head on a dresser while fighting with a thief in a gorilla suit.
In "Time to Dye", the Victim of the Week is chloroformed with a towel. However, the chemical used to drug her interacts with the alcohol she has already consumed and she asphyxiates.
In "Final Drive", the killer cuts the brake lines on the Victim of the Week's car, intending to cause an accident and prevent the victim from racing. However, they underestimated the speed he would be driving at when he tried to brake.
Why Women Kill: Beth Ann and Rob's daughter Emily was killed through being struck by a car when she ran into the street chasing her ball. The driver is distraught at this.
in season 2, Bodie and his crew are fighting over turf with an another crew, which escalates into a shootout. However, due to both side's incompetence with guns, neither side gets hit, but one stray bullet hits a small child in the head, killing him.
in season 4, a man about to testify in a drug case is found shot dead, and Carcetti uses the case to hammer Mayor Royce for not providing funding for witness protection. For the inconvenient politics, the case gets kicked around and buried until the mayoral primaries are over, after which Kima Greggs is allowed to properly investigate the case, and it turns out the guy actually got struck by a stray bullet from someone shooting at empty containers in an alley.
Yellowjackets: Misty tells Crystal about sabotaging the black box after their plane crash so they could't be rescued, and when she is horrified at this, Misty threatens to kill her if she tells anyone, but while only intending to threaten her she accidentally pushes her off the cliff they are standing on.
Your Honor: The series' plot is kickstarted due Michael's son Adam accidentally killing Jimmy's son Rocco. The end of season 1 shows Eugene accidentally killing Adam when he tried to shoot Carlo.
Y: The Last Man (2021): Hero kills her partner/lover Mike during an argument when she angrily throws a fire extinguisher at him, with its trigger puncturing his neck. Mike bleeds to death despite Hero attempting to stop this.
