Slate’s Law Blog
Driver Loses Consciousness Behind the Wheel and Causes Multi-Vehicle Collision
The warnings on prescription bottles range from boring and mundane, such as “may be taken on an empty stomach or with food,” to the painfully obvious, such as “for external use only, do not ingest,” to the perplexing, such as “do not eat grapefruit within three hours...
How to Deal With an Unfair Police Report After a Car Accident
Memory is notoriously unreliable. Criminology professors know this when they ask their spouse to visit class unexpectedly, have a brief conversation with the professor in the front of the classroom, and then leave; the students’ descriptions of the apparently...
Legal Actions Over Holiday Collisions Can Last Well Into the New Year
Most people who make New Year’s resolutions give them up quickly; the gym equipment that people buy from Amazon on January 1 barely gets a single use, if it even gets used at all. Meanwhile, at the beginning of every year, the Internet is abuzz about Divorce Monday,...
Albuquerque Police Respond to Call About Hit-and-Run Pedestrian Accident
Early on a Saturday morning in February 2026, motorists in Albuquerque called 911 when they saw an apparently unconscious man lying beside the road near the intersection of Eubank and Acoma Road SE. Officers from the Albuquerque Police Department responded to the...
Nighttime Pedestrian Accidents
Many accidents in which a car strikes a pedestrian are not the result of carelessness, at least not entirely. Yes, the same risk factors that make a driver more likely to strike another car also make drivers more likely to strike pedestrians; these factors include...
If the Snowstorms Don’t Get You, the Dust Storms Will
New Mexico is one of only a few places in the world where, in the span of a brief road trip, you can see both snow-capped mountains and sandy deserts. The good news is that, when the temperature reaches the triple digits in some parts of the state in the summer, there...
Do Speed Limiters Make Buses and Trucks Safer or More Dangerous?
A common pattern in the industrial and postindustrial eras is that a new invention becomes commercially available, or else makes its debut at a public event with the promise of soon being available to consumers. The public marvels at this invention that performs a...
Ski Lift Accidents
In the first week of January 2026, a young boy was celebrating his birthday with his family at the Ski Apache resort in New Mexico. News sources, which did not indicate the child’s name or age, reported that Ski Apache staff responded to an accident at the resort and...
Study Rates New Mexico as the State With the Most Dangerous Drivers
If you are judging based on the architectural design of shopping centers and the assortment of chain stores you find in each one, the United States is remarkably uniform. A Walmart in New Mexico is not so different from a Walmart in Florida, Massachusetts, or anywhere...
Two Children Injured in DWI Crash That Killed Their Mother
Most people who file personal injury and wrongful death lawsuits do so shortly before the deadline for filing. Part of this delay is that they are spending time preparing documents to meet legal requirements so that the court will consider the lawsuit rather than...