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In May, a district court judge threw out a traffic citation after he found that a Las Cruces man who received a red light camera ticket was denied due process of law. In the case, the registered owner of a vehicle appealed a citation issued to him for failing to stop at a red…
A single-vehicle wreck in southeast Albuquerque has reportedly claimed the life of three people and injured two others. According to a spokesperson for the Albuquerque Police Department, Tasia Martinez, witnesses stated the 20-year-old driver of a 2005 Lincoln was apparently attempting to engage in drag racing on Louisiana Street near Acoma SE when the…
Federal officials would reportedly like automakers to make it impossible for drivers to utilize in-vehicle technology to send or receive text messages, check email, or watch videos while behind the wheel of a moving vehicle. A 281-page report recently published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the United States Department of…
A school bus driver was killed and at least two students were reportedly injured in a single-vehicle crash on State Road 111 near La Madera. According to New Mexico State Police Sergeant Emmanuel Gutierrez, the 69-year-old driver lost control of a Mesa Vista Consolidated School District bus carrying nine children, drove nearly 100 feet…
Members of a family in the process of relocating from California to Texas were injured in a recent rollover crash on Interstate 40 in Bernalillo County. A couple and their three children were reportedly traveling east in a GMC Sierra pick-up truck between Albuquerque and Edgewood when a tire blew and the driver lost…
A recent three-vehicle accident on Airport Road near Cerrillos Road in southwestern Santa Fe reportedly sent four people to the hospital in serious condition. According to Santa Fe Police Captain Aric Wheeler, the driver of an Acura sedan struck a pick-up traveling through the intersection during rush hour. The pick-up allegedly rolled and hit…
The Supreme Court of New Mexico has reversed a lower court’s holding that the New Mexico Department of Transportation (DOT) is immune as a matter of law from being sued for negligently failing to remedy a purportedly dangerous road condition. In Martinez v. N.M. Dep’t of Transp., the family of a couple who was…
New Mexico State University basketball player Emery D. Coleman II was recently charged with third-degree felony homicide using a motor vehicle in connection with the January 2012 traffic death of 85-year-old Clarence G. Boulanger in Alamogordo. According to the Alamogordo Department of Public Safety (ADPS), Coleman was texting behind the wheel at the time…
According to the nation’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 35 percent of Americans are currently considered obese. A study recently published in the Emergency Medicine Journal claims that obese drivers are more likely to be killed in a traffic collision than individuals with a normal body mass index (BMI). As part…
A Santa Fe elementary school teacher was recently killed in what began as a one-car accident on Interstate 25 near La Cienega. 54-year-old Dorothy Mullins was reportedly returning home from transporting school supplies, toys, and other items to Juárez, Mexico as part of a holiday collection campaign when she lost control of her vehicle….
