A pair of teenagers escaped serious injury – and avoided injuring anyone else – when the 16-year-old driver is believed to have lost control of his car on a residential road and damaged two parked vehicles.
Andrew Brem, 16, received a citation for careless driving following the crash on the 4900 block of Arena Drive in the Las Colinas neighborhood. Excessive speed is considered to be a factor in the crash.
Las Cruces Police traffic investigators determined that shortly before noon on Monday, Feb. 3, Brem was traveling south on Arena Drive, at what investigators believe was well above the posted speed limit, when he lost control of a 2007 Ford Mustang. The car jumped a curb and plowed through two trees before landing on an Infinity sedan that was parked along the roadway.
The Infinity was then pushed back into a Ford pickup parked behind it. The Infinity and Ford pickup were unoccupied. Brem and his teenage passenger were shaken but not seriously injured.
The crash likely totaled the Mustang and Infinity, and caused relatively minor damage to the pickup. The two trees were sheared off at ground level and a blue recycle bin that was also struck, strew debris throughout a residential yard.
The crash closed a portion of Arena Drive for more than an hour.