On October 28, 2008, a 36-year-old man was driving a tractor-trailer truck near Deming, New Mexico when he hit a motorcycle, pushing it into a sport utility vehicle. The 23-year-old motorcyclist and two people in the sport utility vehicle were killed in the commercial truck accident.

The sport utility vehicle was pushed off of the road and overturned several times before coming to a stop. One of the two killed was ejected from the vehicle as it overturned. A passenger in the sport utility vehicle was transported to an area hospital for treatment of injuries sustained in the tractor-trailer truck accident.

The truck driver admitted to driving 75 miles per hour as he approached a construction zone before the fatal truck accident. He was charged with three counts of homicide by vehicle and one count of great bodily injury.

Sources: Kevin Buey, “Charges pending in I-10 crash (8:01 a.m.),” Las Cruces Sun-News, October 30, 2008; “Trucker charged in NM crash on I-10,” KDBC.com, October 31, 2008.