Drinking and driving in New Mexico
it's a bad scene all over the state but particularly up north...
the county where i lived in nm, rio arriba, had the highest dui AND the highest auto insurance rates in the nation... also when i was there, they still had drive-thru liquor stores... in espanola, on friday and saturday nights, cars were lined up for the drive-thru 10 deep... it always amazed me... you could be so blotto that you couldn't walk but no matter... you didn't even have to get out of the car and they'd shove more booze right through the driver's-side window... the cops started doing routine roadblocks on fri and sat nights, checking every car that came through but there were ways around them that everybody knew...
driving back up to el rito one night, we came upon a roll-over just off the side of a dangerous curve... since it was a desolate empty stretch, we stopped to see what was what just as a guy came crawling out of an open window of this upside-down vehicle... we asked him if he was hurt and if we could do anything... he just looked at us, shook his head no, and began to weave down the highway - to home, one would assume... Submit To Propeller
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New Mexico's high rate of drunken driving spurred legislative measures that cut the death toll, but fatalities are again on the rise.
the county where i lived in nm, rio arriba, had the highest dui AND the highest auto insurance rates in the nation... also when i was there, they still had drive-thru liquor stores... in espanola, on friday and saturday nights, cars were lined up for the drive-thru 10 deep... it always amazed me... you could be so blotto that you couldn't walk but no matter... you didn't even have to get out of the car and they'd shove more booze right through the driver's-side window... the cops started doing routine roadblocks on fri and sat nights, checking every car that came through but there were ways around them that everybody knew...
driving back up to el rito one night, we came upon a roll-over just off the side of a dangerous curve... since it was a desolate empty stretch, we stopped to see what was what just as a guy came crawling out of an open window of this upside-down vehicle... we asked him if he was hurt and if we could do anything... he just looked at us, shook his head no, and began to weave down the highway - to home, one would assume... Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
12/04/2005
