{"id":8146,"date":"2009-10-20T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8146"},"modified":"2009-10-20T11:13:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T17:13:24","slug":"good-news-nm-no-longer-in-top-10-for-dwi-fatalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/good-news-nm-no-longer-in-top-10-for-dwi-fatalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news: NM no longer in top 10 for DWI fatalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5895\" title=\"Richardson, Bill\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Richardson-Bill.jpg\" alt=\"Richardson, Bill\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I neglected to write about this last week, but here\u2019s a bit of good news for New Mexico in the midst of all the not-so-good news.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico is now officially not one of the 10 states with the highest rates of drunken driving fatalities, Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to new statistics released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, New Mexico had the 11th highest rate of DWI fatalities per 100,000 people in 2008, a news release from the governor\u2019s office states.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006 and 2007, New Mexico was ninth.<\/p>\n<p>The state once had one of the worst DWI fatality rates in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have all worked very hard to keep drunk drivers off our streets, and these rankings reflect the progress we\u2019ve made,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cThis success can be attributed to our comprehensive and aggressive efforts to stop these tragic deaths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can get more details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/press\/2009\/oct\/101609_02.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I neglected to write about this last week, but here\u2019s a bit of good news for New Mexico in the midst of all the not-so-good news. New Mexico is now officially not one of the 10 states with the highest rates of drunken driving fatalities, Gov. Bill Richardson announced Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[142,107],"class_list":["post-8146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}