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In an ironic twist earlier last month, a New Mexico news source reported on a woman who was charged with DUI after arriving to her husband’s DUI police stop. Law enforcement pulled over the woman’s husband after he was spotted speeding near a local bar. After he was pulled over, the officer detected a…

Earlier this month, New Mexico State Senator Udall attempted to reintroduce a bill that was originally designed to prevent drunk driving. Back in 2008, several vehicle manufacturers and the federal government implemented the Driver Alcohol Detention System. This program was intended to enable researchers to develop a system that could prevent drunken individuals from…

Early last week, an individual was found dead after being involved in an accident. According to Albuquerque news reports, the individual was a passenger in a car that was fleeing the police. Evidently, the driver of a Mazda was pulled over at a traffic stop when he fled the police. The driver sped away…

Earlier this week a New Mexico resident was attempting to flee from the police when he was involved in an accident. According to Albuquerque news reports, the man was driving drunk late on March 23rd. Police officials noticed the drunk driver’s car speeding on Interstate 40 and they attempted to pull the driver over….

Every year in Santa Fe, New Mexico, new DWI bills are introduced, but not many of them actually make it to law. A recent news report in New Mexico discussed the influence that the group Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) has on legislators and the bills that make it into law. As the article…

A 19-year-old skateboarder was hit and killed by a 47-year-old man who was suspected to be high at the time of the accident. According to local news reports, the driver was proceeding down Unser Boulevard when the accident occurred. A witness called police, and recordings reveal the witness exclaiming that the teenager was bleeding…

A November car crash resulted in the death of two University of New Mexico students and the hospitalization of two others. After several months of investigation, a 21-year-old man has been indicted for the accidents and charged with stealing a motor vehicle, tampering with evidence, larceny, child abuse, vehicular homicide because of DWI, and…

A Farmington, New Mexico man has been cited for his 16th DUI, and this time there were children in the car. According to a local news report, police indicated that the 30-year-old man was arrested for DUI after he hit a parked car. Apparently, police were called to the scene for a possible domestic…

Earlier last month in a tragic accident in Albuquerque, a man was killed when a drunk driver ran a red light and struck him while he was riding his motorcycle. According to a report by one local news source, the woman had just started to go through court-ordered programs for an aggravated DUI charge…

A tragic single-vehicle accident in Albuquerque earlier this summer resulted in the death of two passengers, a 30-year-old woman and a 1½-year-old baby, and severely injured the driver’s 10-year-old child. The driver of the car, a 41-year-old, was treated at the hospital for minor injuries and booked into an Albuquerque jail in the early…