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November 2006, Vol 96, No. 11 | American Journal of Public Health 1944-1948
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.069153

GOVERNMENT, POLITICS, AND LAW

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

Garnett P. McMillan, PhD and Sandra Lapham, MD, MPH

The authors are with the Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, Albuquerque, NM.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Barbara Steenberg, Behavioral Health Research Center of the Southwest, 612 Encino Place NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102 (e-mail: bsteenberg{at}bhrcs.org).

We determined the relative risk of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents and fatalities after New Mexico lifted its ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales.

We extracted all alcohol-related crashes from New Mexico police reports for 3652 days between July 1, 1990, and June 30, 2000, and found a 29% increase in alcohol-related crashes and a 42% increase in alcohol-related crash fatalities on Sundays after the ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales was lifted. 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.

Repealing the ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales introduced a public health and safety hazard in New Mexico.






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