Drunk driving is a plague on our society. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, there are about 43,000 people killed in fatal car accidents each year in the United States.

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Drivers with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or higher – the legal limit of intoxication in New Mexico – were involved in 116, or 30 percent of fatal crashes.
Roughly 40 percent of all fatal crashes in New Mexico are alcohol-related. In addition to fatal accidents, about 2.9 million people are injured each year in the USA. On average, someone is killed by a drunk driver in the United States every forty minutes. To date, over 7,500 people have been killed from being hit by a drunk driver.
So far in 2017, in New Mexico alone, there have been 110 fatal crashes that were attributed to drunk drivers.
Of course, one death or accident that is alcohol-related is one too many.