Accidents tend to catch the drowsy drivers by surprise
Written by: Mary Gibbons on September 3rd, 2009
Accidents tend to catch the drowsy drivers by surprise | 
As many as 100,000 crashes each year involve fatigued drivers, according to theNational Sleep Foundation. The risk of having a crash due to drowsy driving is not uniformly distributed across the population. Research has identified young males, shift workers, commercial drivers and people with untreated sleep disorders or with short-term or chronic sleep deprivation as having increased risk.
“I woke up bearing down on a slow-moving vehicle,” said the former driver. “My truck was going 75 miles per hour. I estimated them about 35 to 45 miles per hour.”
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