Recent Portales, NM Accident News

Despite not ranking at the forefront among U.S. states with the highest accident rates, New Mexico experiences a considerable frequency of accidents. According to official reports, factors such as speeding, driving under the influence, and driver fatigue have also played a significant role in causing these accidents within the state.

The New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT) has released its annual report of the number of fatalities that have occurred in the state of New Mexico in 2022. They have announced that there has been a total of 467 road deaths in the last year. 

After comparing the data of this year to the same of the previous years, it seems that while the deaths have gone down compared to the count of 481 in 2021, it has greatly increased from the count of 2020 which was 398. 

The NMDOT has also reported the vehicles involved in all these road deaths – 

• 142 of them were car deaths 
• 93 of them were on foot 
• 82 of them were in vans/SUVs
• 64 of them were in pickups 
• 55 of them were on motorcycles
• 19 of them were in semi-trucks or buses
• 4 of them were on bicycles 
• 2 of them were on ATVs
• The remaining deaths have been classified as “vehicle other/unknown”

The most common cause of these fatalities was also included in the report. Alcohol was a factor in 23% of the deaths (106). Of these 106, 8 were motorcyclist fatalities and 20 were pedestrian fatalities. The areas in New Mexico which had the most fatal number of DUIs were District 5 (Santa Fe) and District 6 (Grants/Milan). They have also reported that 118 of the deaths involved people who were not wearing seatbelts at the time of the accident. District 2 (Roswell) had the most fatalities due to people not wearing seatbelts, 51.7%. 

The NMDOT has also released a report on the areas which experienced the most number of fatalities in the state. They have said that the deaths were spread pretty evenly across the rural and the urban areas – 242 deaths were in the rural areas while there were 225 of them in the urban areas. Bernalillo County witnessed the most number of deaths with a whopping 111 fatalities. On the other hand, De Baca, Harding and Los Alamos counties had none.

July was reportedly the month that experienced the most number of fatalities with 51 of them. January had the fewest with a count of 30. The reports have also mentioned that 57 of the fatalities were of minors under the age of 21. 67 of them were people who were 65 years or older. 

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