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Put on the radio or something! Being sleepy on road is as bad as being drunk
Thursday, December 8, 2016 IST
Put on the radio or something! Being sleepy on road is as bad as being drunk

Drivers who miss two or three hours of sleep in a day face the same risk of an accident as those who are legally drunk, according to an AAA study on the sometimes-deadly consequences of being drowsy behind the wheel.

The auto and travel group said on Tuesday that its study of 4,571 U.S. accidents showed that drivers who get less than the recommended seven hours of sleep a day are at a much higher risk of accidents.

The study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety is the first to quantify the relationship between measures of sleep and the risk of getting into a crash, AAA said.

You cannot miss sleep and still expect to be able to safely function behind the wheel,” David Yang, executive director of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, said in a statement.

Drivers who go without two to three hours of sleep in a 24-hour period more than quadrupled their risk of a crash, compared with those getting seven hours.

That is the same crash risk that the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has linked to driving over the legal limit for alcohol.

Drivers who are short of one to two hours of sleep nearly double their risk of having an accident, the AAA study showed.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that 35 percent of U.S. drivers sleep less than seven hours daily. A separate AAA study has found that about a fifth of fatal U.S. traffic accidents involves a sleep-deprived driver.

Symptoms of drowsy driving can include having trouble keeping eyes open, drifting from lanes or not remembering the last few miles driven. But the AAA report said more than half of drivers involved in fatigue-related crashes experienced no symptoms.

 
 
 
 
 

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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
2 hours ago

Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST
Shibu Chandran
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Serving political interests in another person's illness is the lowest form of human value. A 70+ y old lady has cancer.

November 28, 2016 05:00 IST


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