UJI 14-4516 NMRA
UJI 14-4516. Failing to give information and render aid; essential elements.1
For you to find the defendant guilty of failing to give information or render aid [as
charged in Count ____]2, the state must prove to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable
doubt each of the following elements of the crime:
1. The defendant drove a vehicle involved in an accident involving [injury] [great
bodily harm] [death] [or] [damage to any vehicle driven or attended by another person]3;
2. The defendant knew that there was an accident;
3. The defendant failed to:
(a) give defendant’s name, address, and registration number to [the person
struck] [the driver or occupant of the vehicle collided with] [or] [the person attending any
vehicle collided with]4;
(b) display, upon request, defendant’s license to [the person struck] [the driver
or occupant of the vehicle collided with] [or] [the person attending any vehicle collided
with]4; and
(c) render reasonable assistance to any person injured in the accident,
including by taking or making arrangements to take the injured person to a physician or
hospital for medical treatment if it was apparent that such treatment was necessary or
such treatment was requested by the injured person]4;
4. This happened in New Mexico on or about the _____ day of _______, ________.