Aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer

A. Aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer consists of a person willfully and carelessly driving a vehicle in a manner that endangers the life of another person after being given a visual or audible signal to stop, whether by hand, voice, emergency light, flashing light, siren or other signal, by a uniformed law enforcement officer in an authorized emergency vehicle pursuant to Section 66-7-6 NMSA 1978 in pursuit in accordance with the provisions of the Law Enforcement Safe Pursuit Act [29-20-1 to 29- 20-4 NMSA 1978]. B. Whoever commits aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer that does not result in injury or great bodily harm to another person is guilty of a fourth degree felony. C. Whoever commits aggravated fleeing a law enforcement officer that results in injury to another person is guilty of a third degree felony. History: Laws 2003, ch. 260, § 5; 2022, ch. 56, § 27.