BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – After a deadly crash along a dark southwest Albuquerque road, the victim’s family is demanding lights be installed. The accident came months after Bernalillo County commissioners approved new lighting that would be added to the road along I-40 Frontage Road.
Joshua Munoz was a corrections officer from the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Detention Center. He was on his way home when he got into a crash on the I-40 Frontage Road near Atrisco Vista and Central Avenue.
He was only 19 years old and had just graduated from his training at MDC a few days before the accident.
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Last year, Bernalillo County commissioners approved a project that would add nearly two miles of solar-powered lights to the roadway, but to date, there are still no lights.
On Saturday, Munoz’s family took action by installing temporary solar lights.
“We’re going to put solar lights until they start to put the lights that they promised me,” said Sujey Sanchez, mother of the victim.