Traffic Safety Enforcement Section is responsible for the following programs.

Forms for these programs can be obtained from the Traffic Safety Financial Manual.
For further Information on these programs please contact Valerie Quintana.

Law Enforcement -  view more...

Selective Traffic Enforcement Programs (STEP) - view more... 

NM Traffic Safety Education and Enforcement Funds -

Community DWI (CDWI) Program Enforcement - view more

Safety Corridors

In an attempt to reduce crashes and save lives, the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), have collaborated with many local agencies to establish “Safety Corridors” which are basically designated sections of roadway where fines for speeding are doubled.  Increased inforcement is the key component of the Safety Corridors.  The location of a Safety Corridor is based on fatal and serious injury crashes.  The goal of New Mexico’s Safety Corridors is to reduce crashes and fatalities on selected segments of roadway by 20%, which, for New Mexico, would mean saving twenty (20) to forty (40) lives per year.

New Mexico currently has 12 Safety Corridors.  There are two per NMDOT district (see map below for locations).  The identified corridors will remain as Safety Corridors for three years or until the Transportation Programs Division Director determines, based on crash/fatality data, designation as a Safety Corridor is no longer necessary.  At that time, another section of roadway in the same district will be designated as a Safety Corridor.

Safety Corridors are authorized by New Mexico Statute Section 66-7-301, Subsection A (allows DOT to designate safety corridors),  and Section 66-8-116, subsection D (doubles fine for speeding in the corridor).

Traffic Safety Digest -New Mexico Safety Corridors

State Map

Saturation Patrols

Primarily overtime for DWI and/or occupant protection enforcement, public awareness, and education.

Sobriety Checkpoints

Primarily overtime for DWI enforcement, public awareness, and education.

Commercial Vehicle Traffic

The Motor Transportation Division (MTD) of the Department of Public Safety enforces commercial vehicle laws. In New Mexico, MTD inspectors are authorized to stop non-commercial vehicles violating speed or any other traffic laws, particularly when such violations could contribute to a crash with a commercial motor vehicle or could be the cause of a commercial motor vehicle crash. Commercial Vehicle Traffic STEPs will include:

• Identification of problem areas through the analysis of crash data involving commercial vehicles.
• Conducting overtime “Sting Operations,” in targeted locations.
• Public information and education campaigns to increase the public’s awareness of the penalties and consequences resulting from unsafe driving, and the need to share the roads with commercial vehicles.
  

Underage Drinking Posters

• 4th Degree Pstr GIRL Spn.pdf
• 4th Degree Pstr GIRL Eng.pdf
• Bottle 4th Degree rack card span.pdf
• Bottle 4th Degree rack card Eng.pdf