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Honestly it doesn't surprise me. I think I lost like 5 old high school classmates in 6 months due to them being drink behind a wheel and killing themselves and others. There's nothing to do, the culture of the entire state revolves around hanging with friends and drinking, there's alcohol for sale at almost every store in the state besides dollar stores and because everyone drinks and drives there's no one with common sense to talk others out of it.
Few cities have public transit, and most of it is piss poor, so people walk if they don't have a car. Sidewalk infrastructure is a joke so people end up walking in the road. Now you see the issue.
Like someone else pointed out, 2/3 people are under the influence of something while driving in NM. Most of the time it's alcohol, the rest is either weed or coke.
All of that is true for Wisconsin and North Dakota too. I'm guessing NM is just a deadly combination of all the drunk drivers, plus being warm enough to walk year round (in ND and WI, pedestrians are only getting mowed down in the summer. Too cold to walk the rest of the year)