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.168594.1
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 68
48
TH LEGISLATURE
- STATE OF NEW MEXICO -
FIRST SESSION
, 2007
INTRODUCED BY
Pete Campos
A JOINT MEMORIAL
REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONDUCT A
RESEARCH PROJECT THAT WILL ADDRESS THE PROBLEM OF WRONG-WAY
DRIVERS ON NEW MEXICO'S INTERSTATE AND LIMITED ACCESS HIGHWAYS
AND LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF EFFECTIVE COUNTERMEASURES.
WHEREAS, since November 2006, New Mexico has recorded at
least five incidents of wrong-way drivers on the state's
interstate and limited-access highways, resulting in eight
fatalities and two seriously injured persons; and
WHEREAS, since the advent of the interstate highway
system, wrong-way driving on freeways has been a persistent
problem despite fifty years of highway striping and sign
improvements; and
WHEREAS, approximately three hundred fifty people
nationally are killed each year in wrong-way freeway crashes