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14-4505. Careless driving; essential elements.

            For you to find the defendant guilty of careless driving [as charged in Count ________]¹, the state must prove to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements of the crime:

            1.         The defendant operated a motor vehicle² on a highway³;

            2.         The defendant operated the motor vehicle in a careless, inattentive or imprudent manner without due regard for the width, grade, curves, corners, traffic, weather, road conditions and all other attendant circumstances;

            3.         This happened in New Mexico, on or about the ________ day of ____________, ________.

USE NOTES

            1.         Insert count number if more than one count is charged.

            2.         See Section 66-1-4.11 NMSA 1978 for the definition of a motor vehicle.

            3.         See Section 66-1-4.8 NMSA 1978 for the definition of a highway.

[Adopted, October 1, 1985; UJI Criminal Rule 35.05 NMSA 1978; UJI 14-4505 SCRA 1986; as amended, effective May 1, 1997.]