True, according to the 2005 New Mexico Traffic Crash Information released by New Mexico Department of Transportation, 40 percent of all fatal crashes involved alcohol.
It has been revealed that in 2005:
A person died in an alcohol-involved crash every 45 hours.
A person was injured in an alcohol-involved crash every five hours.
An alcohol-involved crash occurred every 200 minutes.
61 percent of all alcohol-involved fatal crashes occurred on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
43 percent of all alcohol-involved crashes happened on Friday or Saturday.
More alcohol-involved crashes occurred between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. than any other hour on weekdays.
17 percent of the alcohol-involved drivers in crashes were less than 21 years old.
Males are more than three times as likely as females to be alcohol-involved drivers in crashes.
5.4 percent of the crashes in New Mexico were alcohol-involved crashes.
In 2014, a study released June 26 by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paints a grim national picture in which New Mexico stands out as a state in unparalleled crisis.
Excessive use of alcohol robbed New Mexicans of 1,570 years of life annually, per 100,000 of population, between 2006 and 2010 — more than any other state, according to the study. Researchers derived the annual years of potential life lost by comparing the ages of people who died due to alcohol-related causes with their life expectancy. New York was lowest, at 564.5l; the national average was 831.6. (See more at SantaFeNewMexican.com).
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