Episodes
About
Live and Let Drive is a podcast focused on New Mexico and the issues that shape safety on our roads. Produced as part of the New Mexico Department of Transportation’s traffic safety initiatives, the podcast explores driving safety issues with in-depth conversations with researchers, engineers, public health professionals, law enforcement, community activists, and New Mexicans affected by traffic safety issues. Discussions around the challenges and solutions surrounding safe driving are explored.
Episodes explore a wide range of topics — from impaired driving (alcohol and drugged), speeding, pedestrian safety, emerging technologies, underage drinking prevention, and the behavior factors that influence crash risk. By combining expert insight with lived experiences from survivors, families, and the community, the podcast connects the facts about driving safety with the human stories behind them.
Through thoughtful conversations and storytelling, Live and Let Drive helps listeners better understand how everyday choices made behind the wheel affect not only themselves, but everyone who shares the road. The full library of episodes offers an opportunity to learn more about the people, policies, and behaviors that influence traffic safety across the state.
S2 Ep9:
Buzzkill:
How Servers
Prevent DWIs.
How responsible alcohol service helps prevent
drunk driving, with guest Tom Schuch
from the New Mexico Restaurant Association.
S2 Ep9:
Buzzkill:
How Servers
Prevent DWIs.
How responsible alcohol service helps prevent
drunk driving, with guest Tom Schuch
from the New Mexico Restaurant Association.
Episodes
S2 Ep8:
Dust Storms
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In this episode, we explore how New Mexico is working to reduce the danger of dust storms, and what to do if you’re caught in one.
S2 Ep7:
Hot Car Deaths:
When Memory Fails.
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Podcast with Sue Auriemma Of Kids and Care Safety on how to prevent hot car deaths – tragedies that can happen to anyone.Â
S2 Ep6:
ZeroProof Part 2:
Underage Drinking
Treatment.
Podcast episode wth Chrissy Pacheco, an alcohol counselor, on prevention, signs and treatments for underage drinking.
S2 Ep5:
ZeroProof: Underage
Drinking Prevention
In this episode of Live and Let Drive, we take a deep dive in to the issue of underage drinking with guest Rebecca Neudecker.
S2 Ep4:
Motorcycle Safety:
Ride on
Motorcycle enthusiasts and safety instructors, Brittany Morrow and David Randall, talk in depth about motorcycle safety.
S2 Ep3:
Fatal Crash Unit:
On this episode, we talk with members of the Fatal Crash Unit responsible for investigating fatal crashes in our state.
S2 Ep2:
Beyond the Data:
Crash Report Insights
Research scientist, Jessica Bloom, discusses vehicular crashes, providing insights to the data she analyzes in New Mexico’s crash reports.
S2 Ep1:
The Apodaca Story
The Apodaca family share their story of being hit by a drunk driver, losing their baby, and how MADD helped in the aftermath.
Episode 10:
How Drivers Interact
with Technology
Do humans interact with technology safely while driving? Our guest, Dr. Nichole Morris brings insight to this complex topic.
Episode 9:
Slodwn:
A Crash Course
on Speeding
New episode on the contributing factors of a speeding crash and how to mitigate speeding with experts from TIRF and ToXcel.
Episode 8:
Bklup for a Talk
About Seat Belt Safety
Jerremy Manzanares from Safer New Mexico Now and Pierrot Bendegue from NMDOT join us in a discussion about seat belt safety.
Episode 7:
How to End
Distracted Driving
We talk with Joel Feldman from EndDD.org about how we can stop distracted driving through the right messaging and actions.
Episode 6:
A Thing or Two
About DWI School
DWI School is an effort to deter repeat offenders. We talked with Kathleen Lawicki former Director of the Santa Fe DWI School.
Episode 5:
MADD About
Drunk Driving
In this episode, we talk with Dolly Otero from the New Mexico chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, also know as MADD.
Episode 4:
Drugged Driving
in the Age of
Legalized Cannabis
Are more people driving high in New Mexico now that cannabis is legal? We talk with an expert, Deputy Chief Charles Files.
Episode 3:
Pedestrian Safety
A Two-Way Street
Our guests for today’s episode are Rosa Kozub and Shannon Glendenning from the NMDOT Multimodal Planning & Programs Bureau.
Episode 2:
A Life Changed Forver:
The Story
of Bobby Dilley
Bobby Dilley tells us his touching story of recover and rebuilding a life that was shattered in seconds.
Episode 1:
A Day in the Life of a
Police Officer
Lieutenant Kurtis Ward gives a “behind the curtain” look into what it’s like to be on patrol protecting us from drunk drivers.
