“A 12-year-old girl on horseback hit by a drunken driver south of Santa Fe in 2006 ended up in the bed of the man’s pickup and had to throw beer cans at his back window in an effort to get him to stop, a prosecutor said Monday.”
The driver’s attorney “blamed the setting sun and a dirty windshield” even though his 41-year-old client tested at .15 breath-alcohol content.
Two horses died as a result of the accident.