Statutes > New Mexico Statutes > Chapter 66 - Motor Vehicles. > Article 7 - Traffic Laws; Signs, Signals and Markings; Accidents; Weight and Size; Traffic Safety, 66-7-1 through 66-7-513. > Section 66-7-337 - Drivers to exercise due care.

Section 66-7-337 - Drivers to exercise due care.

66-7-337. Drivers to exercise due care.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of Sections 66-7-333 through 66-7-340 NMSA 1978 every driver of a vehicle shall exercise due care to avoid colliding with any pedestrian upon any roadway and shall give warning by sounding the horn when necessary and shall exercise proper precaution upon observing any child or any confused or incapacitated person upon a roadway.