by Slate Stern | Jul 15, 2025 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
New Mexico’s motorcycle helmet laws are some of the most lenient in the country. While some states require all motorcycle riders to wear safety helmets, and others require them only for riders under the age of 21, New Mexico only requires helmets for riders under the...
by Slate Stern | Jul 8, 2025 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Personal Injury, Slate's Law Blog
Everyone’s dream is to ride a motorcycle on a sunny afternoon until the time comes to ride into the sunset, but there is a certain romance to going outdoors on a rainy day. Think about how pleasant rainy-day walks are if you are prepared for them and how unpleasant...
by Slate Stern | Jul 1, 2025 | Bicycle Accidents, Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
Before you learned to drive a car, riding a bicycle made perfect sense. The rules of the road were, for all practical purposes, the laws of nature. You pedaled harder while riding up a hill and coasted while riding downhill. If you needed to cross a street in your...
by Slate Stern | Jun 17, 2025 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Property Rights Law, Slate's Law Blog
Almost any type of accident that can result in a fender bender with property damage only can also be a catastrophic accident with fatalities or severe injuries if a few of the details are different. For example, a rear-end collision at a red light could simply dent...
by Slate Stern | Jun 3, 2025 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
By now, you have heard all manner of gloom and doom about Generation Z. They have no career ambitions except to be social media influencers, or maybe even just to be devastatingly beautiful in the privacy of their own living quarters. Even though they are obsessed...
by Slate Stern | May 27, 2025 | Motor Vehicle Accidents, Slate's Law Blog
In April 2024, police in Pecos responded to a call about an Amtrak train that had struck a pickup truck near the intersection of Wild Flower Lane and Cactus Drive. The driver of the pickup truck was the only occupant of the vehicle, and she was hospitalized with...
