Albuquerque woman sentenced to prison for deadly DWI crash in 2024
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A 25-year-old Albuquerque woman was sentenced to prison for a deadly DWI crash in January 2024.
Jade Lucero and her fiancée, Colter Anderson, were driving on Paseo Del Norte when they were hit head-on by Adamaris Martinez. Investigators learned Martinez was drunk, driving the wrong way, when she plowed into the couple.
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As a result of the crash, Lucero died and Anderson was seriously injured.
Martinez pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and DWI great bodily harm in December. Judge Matthew Chavez sentenced her to 13 years in the New Mexico Corrections Department, the maximum punishment allowed under New Mexico Law.
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