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New Mexico - The Land of Enchantment, offering scenic beauty, rich cultural history, and exceptional recreational opportunity

New Mexico was inhabited by indigenous peoples of the Americas for many centuries before European exploration, and later, it was part of Mexico before becoming a U.S. territory and eventually a U.S. state. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics, including descendants of Spanish colonists who have lived in the area for more than 400 years. The Native American nations in the state consist of mostly Navajo, Pueblo, and Apache peoples. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Hispanic and Native American influences.

Oil and gas production, agriculture, mining, tourism, and federal government spending are important drivers of New Mexico's economy. 

New Mexico's climate can contribute to accidents in the region

According to the New Mexico State University Climate Center, the mean annual temperatures range from 64° F in the extreme southeast to 40° F or lower in high mountains and valleys of the north. Average annual precipitation ranges from less than 10 inches over much of the southern desert and the Rio Grande and San Juan Valleys to more than 20 inches at higher elevations in the state. Heavy summer thunderstorms may bring several inches of rain to small areas in a short time. Because of the rough terrain and sparse vegetation in many areas, runoffs from these storms frequently cause local flash floods.

Major highways in New Mexico

Interstate 40, a major east–west route of the Interstate Highway System, runs east–west through Albuquerque. It is the direct replacement for the historic U.S. Route 66.

Interstate 25 follows the north–south corridor through Albuquerque and Santa Fe. 

Interstate 10 traverses Southern New Mexico through Hidalgo, Grant, Luna, and Doña Ana counties. The Interstate travels west–east between the Arizona state line and the interchange with I-25 in Las Cruces, and then travels north–south into Texas.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation maintains a top-quality website with travel, weather, road condition, and other information valuable to travelers across the state. It also has information for bicyclists, pedestrians, and equestrians.

In Accident Data Center, you can find information about recent New Mexico collisions at this link for Albuquerque and Santa Fe accidents.

When someone is injured in an accident in New Mexico, it is important to gather information about what happens next.

Being injured in a serious accident is always a shocking and scary experience, and dealing with the aftermath is exhausting and stressful. Accident victims are forced to deal with hospitalization, medical treatments, missed work, and lost income, often while trying to manage pain and disability from their injuries. And then the insurance adjusters start circling. Find out more about accidents and what issues an injured person needs to be aware of by going to this link.

What to do after a serious injury accident in New Mexico

When someone has been injured or killed in a motor-vehicle collision in New Mexico, the accident victim and their family members are left with medical bills, lost income, and other costs. It is important to get legal assistance to help the accident victim recover, or when the accident is fatal, to help the family members get fully compensated for their losses. Learn more about how a good New Mexico personal injury attorney will help injured victims and families.

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Legal and Other Resources and Information

New Mexico DOT-Department of Transportation

New Mexico DOT-Department of Transportation

Multimodal transportation choices invigorate the economy and connect people in small towns and cities and facilitate transportation of goods and people to other states and nations.  New Mexico DOT focuses on the following modes of travel: transit, rail, aviation and highways. We've strengthened our commitment to traffic safety, environmental excellence, and complete planning, design and engineering services.
New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association

New Mexico Trial Lawyers Association

NMTLA works relentlessly to preserve your clients' rights to a trial by jury and provide the resources you need to be successful in your practice. Those resources include a list server to share information, insights and experiences with colleagues, publications to keep you up-to-date on important decisions at the trial and appellate level, top-notch CLE programs that are consistenly rated the best in New Mexico, legal research databases such as depos, forms, brief banks, and much more.
University of New Mexico School of Law

University of New Mexico School of Law

Our mission is to educate and train students to become excellent lawyers who will enrich and serve local, state, tribal, national and international communities after graduation. We seek to maintain our long tradition of opening access to the profession. We also seek to make legal education more broadly available by educating practicing attorneys and non-lawyers in New Mexico. We endeavor to focus our resources on some of New Mexico’s most pressing legal needs through educational, research and service programs of national and international prominence. These goals track the University’s overall vision and mission to offer New Mexicans and others access to high quality educational, research and service programs; to operate as a significant knowledge resource for New Mexico, the nation, and the world; and to foster programs of international prominence that will place UNM among America’s most distinguished public research universities.

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