Allen McCulloch, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, was cited Wednesday for careless driving in the Oct. 15 crash that left a woman badly burned, according to KOB-TV in
The Sandoval County Sheriff’s Department issued the citation after determining that McCulloch was talking on a cell phone and speeding during a rainstorm when his vehicle hydroplaned and slammed into the back of a parked sport utility vehicle on Highway 550 near
The SUV, which was carrying six women, had stopped to wait out the storm. It rolled off the road’s shoulder and caught fire.
McCulloch, who was unharmed, helped pull several of the women from the vehicle, but several were burned.
McCulloch is trying to unseat Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., but polls have him way behind in the race.