Video: Drunks on ABQ streets

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) - There will be a lot of people out drinking on New Years Eve and some of those people will make the decision to get behind the wheel. But on an average weekend, just how drunk are the drivers on Albuquerque streets?

KRQE News 13 through lapel video from every single APD DWI arrest from the first weekend of the month. What's on some of these videos is downright shocking.

While some realize that they are going to be arrested and hang their heads, accepting it. Others pull some outrageous moves. Like Kimberly Etzcorn, who speeds off when the officer asks for her license.

Brenda Archibeque was also pulled over for driving erratically, but she said she hasn't been drinking. When the officer has her walk the line she stumbles then tells him, “balance is hard when your hefty.”

Cops said Joseph Barreras wasn't drunk but high when they found him passed out in the middle of mountain. Even the officer opening the door couldn't wake him. His car was still in gear.

Matthew Estrada rear ended another driver on San Mateo about three in the morning.

The officer tells him, “Matthew, I am going to have you do some field sobriety tests to see if you were impaired, okay?”

Estrada tells the officer, “I was impaired. What the f*** are you talking about? Of course I was.”

While some of the drivers may have seemed funny in those videos, there is nothing funny about drinking and driving. In fact, DWI experts say most of the drunk drivers caught in New Mexico have a blood alcohol level two times the legal limit.