Legalized Sunday packaged alcohol sales and alcohol-related traffic crashes and crash fatalities in New Mexico

G.P. McMillan, S. Lapham and B. Steenberg

American Journal of Public Health, 2006, vol. 96, issue 11, 1944-1948

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.069153

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