NO STATE HAD A GREATER REDUCTION IN TRAFFIC DEATHS LAST YEAR THAN NEW MEXICO. A NEW REPORT FROM THE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL SAYS TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN THE STATE FELL BY 20-PERCENT.
THE COUNCIL’S KEN KOLOSH TELLS 770 KKOB THE BIG DROP WAS PROBABLY NOTHING MORE THAN A STATISTICAL QUIRK DUE TO NEW MEXICO’S LOW POPULATION. HE SAYS WHEN SMALL NUMBERS ARE INVOLVED STATISTICALLY, LARGE FLUCTUATIONS IN POPULATION FROM YEAR TO YEAR ARE NOT UNUSUAL.
KOLOSH SAYS THERE HAVE BEEN RECENT YEARS WHEN TRAFFIC FATALITIES WENT UP BY MORE THAN 20 PERCENT IN NEW MEXICO. IN ALL THERE WERE JUST UNDER 300 HIGHWAY DEATHS IN THE STATE LAST YEAR.
