2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles
Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety
Part 4 - TRAFFIC LAWS GENERALLY
Section 66-7-327 - Method of giving hand and arm signals.
All signals herein required given by hand and arm shall be given from the left side of the vehicle in the following manner and such signal shall indicate as follows:
A. left turn: hand and arm extended horizontally;
B. right turn: hand and arm extended upward; and
C. stop or decrease speed: hand and arm extended downward.
History: 1953 Comp., § 64-7-327, enacted by Laws 1978, ch. 35, § 431.
ANNOTATIONSCross references. — For the penalty assessment for violation, see 66-8-116 NMSA 1978.
Both drivers in collision guilty of proximate negligence per se. — Where it appeared that automobile had not been equipped with proper rear view mirror to enable driver to see distance of 200 feet in rear and that driver had not signaled that he was reducing speed or stopping and driver of truck which struck rear of first driver's automobile admitted he followed at distance of only 50 to 100 feet, both drivers were guilty of negligence per se and accident proximately resulted from such negligence. Pacific Greyhound Lines v. Alabam Freight Lines, 1951-NMSC-051, 55 N.M. 357, 233 P.2d 1044.
