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Effectiveness of Bans and Laws in Reducing Traffic Deaths: Legalized Sunday Packaged Alcohol Sales and Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes and Crash Fatalities in New Mexico
Legalized Sunday Packaged Alcohol Sales and Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes and Crash Fatalities in New Mexico
Published: November 2006
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This article reports on the relative risk of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents and fatalities after New Mexico lifted its ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales. The review of alcohol-related crashes from New Mexico police reports for 3,652 days between July 1, 1990 and June 30, 2000, found a 29 percent increase in alcohol-related crashes and a 42 percent increase in alcohol-related crash fatalities on Sundays after lifting the ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales. There was an estimated excess of 543.1 alcohol-related crashes and 41.6 alcohol-related crash fatalities on Sundays after the ban was lifted. The study concluded that repealing the ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales introduced a public health and safety hazard in New Mexico.
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