Friends were just stopping first in line for a stoplight in Santa Fe last evening when the sixth car back hit the fifth car back at (according to the later police estimate) 65 mph. Number five hit number four. Number four hit number three. Number three hit number two. And number two hit number one.
The perpetrator backed up and tried to drive around the mess he had created. The third car in line, a BMW, moved to cut him off. So he rammed the BMW.
A friend or relative of the perp in a seventh, uninvolved vehicle called to the perp to quick, get out of his car, now blocked, and escape with him. The perp was too drunk to get out of his car. (He was arrested at the scene.)
A city not-so-different after all.
These are the kinds of cases where, as an insurance defense lawyer you just grin and bear it and offer up policy limits.
As I understand it, car one’s insurance contacts car two’s insurer, car two contacts car three, and so forth. New Mexico and six cars. What’s the chances at least one is uninsured?