New Mexico Statutes

§ 66-7-312 — Limitations on overtaking on the left

New Mexico·Ch. 66 Motor Vehicles·Art. 7 Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents;
No vehicle shall be driven to the left side of the center of the roadway in overtaking and passing another vehicle proceeding in the same direction unless such left side is clearly visible and free of oncoming traffic for a sufficient distance ahead to permit such overtaking and passing to be completely made without interfering with the safe operation of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction or any vehicle overtaken. In every event the overtaking vehicle must return to the right-hand side of the roadway before coming within one hundred feet of any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction.

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Legislative History

1953 Comp., § 64-7-312, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 416.

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