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New Mexico is known for its drug problems (including alcoholism). 30% of fatalities involve alcohol on the part of the driver or the pedestrian, and 14% involve

New Mexico is known for its drug problems (including alcoholism). 30% of fatalities involve alcohol on the part of the driver or the pedestrian, and 14% involve other drugs (these percentages might overlap). https://gps.unm.edu/sites/default/files/traffic/NM_Pedestrian_Report_15-19.pdf https://gps.unm.edu/sites/default/files/traffic/NM_Pedestria... New Mexico’s pedestrian fatalities have actually stayed fairly constant or even gone down a bit the last few years, during a period when the country as a whole has had a significant increase. And we’re still #2 nationwide! That’s how bad things are here.

ianai 4y ago
NM has a population of around 2.1M and Florida around 22.2M. That puts NM at about 41 vehicular fatalities and Florida at about 443. That’s what I mean by odd numerical stuff. Dividing things by 100,000 is an attempt to smooth over population differences, but I’m not sold it actually makes as much difference as people assume. Yes the DUI thing is another known problem here. Good to point it out. Don’t know that anything could be done about it. People just don’t seem to value life enough.