ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A five-year-old was critically injured in a car crash, and that child’s mother, admitted to driving drunk, after police say she blew almost three times the legal limit. It was the second time in a month that she was caught drunk behind the wheel.
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It was just before six p.m. on March 30 when officers responded to a crash at Unser Blvd. and I-40. A vehicle travelling southbound on Unser t-boned another car exiting I-40 and trying to make a turn. Rebecca Salazar: “I just ran a red light, and that is what happened.”Officer: “You ran a red light? Salazar: “Yeah.”
But officers said the light was nowhere near where the crash happened. Witnesses said the driver of the car that caused the crash, later identified as Rebecca Salazar, was speeding…