Legalized Sunday Packaged Alcohol Sales and Alcohol-Related Traffic Crashes and Crash Fatalities in New Mexico
This article reports on a study undertaken to determine the relative risks of alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents and fatalities that occurred after the state of New Mexico lifted its ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales. The authors created a database of all alcohol-related crashes from New Mexico police reports between July 1990 and June 2000. Analysis revealed a 42% increase in alcohol-related crash fatalities on Sundays, after the ban was lifted, resulting in an excess of 41.6 fatalities. Non-fatal, alcohol-related crash rates increased 29% after the ban on Sunday packaged sales was repealed, resulting in an estimated excess of 543 crashes. The authors conclude that repealing the ban on Sunday packaged alcohol sales introduced a public health and safety hazard in New Mexico. A brief discussion of the limitations of the study is also included.
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Authors:
- McMillan, Garnett P
- Lapham, Sandra C
- Publication Date: 2006-11
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Print
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: pp 1944-1948
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Serial:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Volume: 96
- Issue Number: 11
- Publisher: American Public Health Association
- ISSN: 0090-0036
- EISSN: 1541-0048
- Serial URL: http://ajph.aphapublications.org/loi/ajph
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alcohol use; Alcoholic beverages; Crash injuries; Crashes; Fatalities; Human factors in crashes; Laws and legislation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Alcohol availability; Alcohol related crashes
- Geographic Terms: New Mexico
- Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01045329
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Mar 27 2007 8:59PM