In a recent year, more than 230 children were killed in. Governor Lujan Grisham announced that the state will provide additional police officers and security for the remainder of the festival, which concludes on August 14. Drunk driving accidents are responsible for 10,000 deaths every year, and about 1/3 of all traffic-related deaths, according to the NHTSA. The festival brings together Native American and indigenous communities in the state to ‘songs, dances, art, and culture, that demonstrate the fortitude of the Native American Tribes in New Mexico and beyond’, according to the event’s website. The Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year. A large percentage of the population are Navajo, Hopi or Zuni Native Americans. Gallup is a town of about 22,000 people located just miles from the Navajo Nation. ‘But we also have to pray, to think about our relatives.’

‘I’m sure a lot of people are angry,’ he said. Nez asked all listeners for their prayers. In 2019, 10,142 people died as a result of drunk driving. One in three road deaths in the United States is related to drunk driving. Every day, 29 people die in car crashes caused by drunk driving. ‘This is just evil creeping into our communities.’ The true cost of drunk driving is far greater than a taxi home so call a cab. ‘I was feet away from this vehicle as it drove through the streets,’ he said on a livestream posted on Facebook immediately after the tragedy. Five years ago, a Barnesville man who was working in a construction zone in Columbus was killed by a driver operating a vehicle illegally. Pinedale Man Arrested After Striking Several People at Gallup Parade #PressReleaseNMSP /srmdGijxwn- NMSP August 5, 2022Īmong those almost hit was Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and his family. BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio (WTRF) A stretch of highway near Barnesville has a new name.

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