Your ordinary car hits and damages another occupied car. Nobody appears injured, and you can stop safely at the scene. What should you do?
Correct answer: Stop immediately and remain until you have fulfilled the required information and assistance duties.
A collision with a driven or attended vehicle requires an immediate stop and remaining to fulfill the applicable information and assistance duties. If you must stop as close to the scene as possible, return promptly. Injury or death also requires stopping and remaining; in either situation, avoid obstructing traffic more than necessary.
Source: §12-4-2, physical 47–48, reader lines 1765–1773, and §12-4-3 duties, physical 48, lines 1774–1783; injury/death stopping clause §12-4-1(A), physical 47, lines 1742–1747; cited counterparts §§66-7-202, 66-7-203 and 66-7-201 NMSA 1978; conflicting penalty text excluded. New Mexico Municipal League, New Mexico Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 2025 Compilation, all revisions through July 2025; footers Revised June 2025. Dated 2025 municipal compilation, state-cited passages, not verified current statewide code or proof of municipal adoption. Complete relevant text actually read October 1, 2026 and reused from retained reader output turn6030view0. sourcePage and URL fragment are one-based physical PDF pages; no visual inspection claim. Selected ordinary human-driver duties; no penalty, property-dollar threshold, written-report deadline or autonomous-operator claim. ↗
After damaging another occupied car, you have stopped and are speaking with its driver. Which information must you provide, along with showing your driver’s license if requested?
Correct answer: Your name, address and the registration number of the vehicle you were driving.
Give your name, address and the vehicle’s registration number to the appropriate person involved in the collision, and exhibit your driver’s license on request. A phone number, a photograph or a promise that an insurer will respond does not replace that exchange.
Source: §12-4-3, physical 48, reader lines 1774–1779; complete information-and-aid provision read through line 1783; cited counterpart §66-7-203 NMSA 1978. New Mexico Municipal League, New Mexico Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 2025 Compilation, all revisions through July 2025; footers Revised June 2025. Dated 2025 municipal compilation, state-cited passages, not verified current statewide code or proof of municipal adoption. Complete relevant text actually read October 1, 2026 and reused from retained reader output turn6030view0. sourcePage and URL fragment are one-based physical PDF pages; no visual inspection claim. Selected ordinary human-driver duties; no penalty, property-dollar threshold, written-report deadline or autonomous-operator claim. ↗
Someone is injured in a collision involving your car, and the need for medical treatment is apparent. Moving the person yourself could worsen the injury. Which response meets the assistance duty without requiring unsafe personal transport?
Correct answer: Arrange appropriate medical help and transport, and provide reasonable assistance.
Provide reasonable assistance. When treatment is apparently necessary or the injured person requests transport, that can include arranging transportation to appropriate medical care. You are not required to personally move an injured person in a way that creates additional danger.
Source: §12-4-3, physical 48, reader lines 1779–1783, including carrying or making arrangements for carrying when treatment is apparently necessary or requested; cited counterpart §66-7-203 NMSA 1978. New Mexico Municipal League, New Mexico Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 2025 Compilation, all revisions through July 2025; footers Revised June 2025. Dated 2025 municipal compilation, state-cited passages, not verified current statewide code or proof of municipal adoption. Complete relevant text actually read October 1, 2026 and reused from retained reader output turn6030view0. sourcePage and URL fragment are one-based physical PDF pages; no visual inspection claim. Selected ordinary human-driver duties; no penalty, property-dollar threshold, written-report deadline or autonomous-operator claim. ↗
While driving a borrowed car, you strike an unattended vehicle. You stop but cannot locate its owner or operator. What should your conspicuous written notice include?
Correct answer: Your name and address, the borrowed car owner’s name and address, and the circumstances of the collision.
After stopping, either locate and notify the unattended vehicle’s owner or operator, or leave a conspicuous written notice in the struck vehicle. The notice identifies both the driver and the owner of the striking vehicle by name and address and states what happened. An anonymous contact-only note is incomplete.
Source: Complete §12-4-4, physical 48, reader lines 1784–1790; cited counterpart §66-7-204 NMSA 1978. New Mexico Municipal League, New Mexico Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 2025 Compilation, all revisions through July 2025; footers Revised June 2025. Dated 2025 municipal compilation, state-cited passages, not verified current statewide code or proof of municipal adoption. Complete relevant text actually read October 1, 2026 and reused from retained reader output turn6030view0. sourcePage and URL fragment are one-based physical PDF pages; no visual inspection claim. Selected ordinary human-driver duties; no penalty, property-dollar threshold, written-report deadline or autonomous-operator claim. ↗
A collision involving your ordinary car injures someone within a municipality. You are physically able to communicate, and police have not yet been notified. What is your immediate reporting duty?
Correct answer: Notify the municipal police department immediately by the quickest available means.
Give immediate notice by the quickest means of communication. Within a municipality, notify its police department; outside one, notify the county sheriff’s office or the nearest New Mexico State Police office. If a driver is physically incapable and a capable occupant was present, that occupant must give or arrange the missing notice.
Source: §12-4-6(A), physical 48, reader lines 1798–1808, injury/death and recipient clauses only; incapacity/capable-occupant qualification (B), physical 48–49, lines 1809–1813; cited counterparts §§66-7-206 and 66-7-208 NMSA 1978; property threshold, written-report timing and autonomous-operator text not scored. New Mexico Municipal League, New Mexico Uniform Traffic Ordinance, 2025 Compilation, all revisions through July 2025; footers Revised June 2025. Dated 2025 municipal compilation, state-cited passages, not verified current statewide code or proof of municipal adoption. Complete relevant text actually read October 1, 2026 and reused from retained reader output turn6030view0. sourcePage and URL fragment are one-based physical PDF pages; no visual inspection claim. Selected ordinary human-driver duties; no penalty, property-dollar threshold, written-report deadline or autonomous-operator claim. ↗
