With holiday travel, parties and late nights already robbing some people of much needed sleep, once again the risk of falling asleep at the wheel is becoming a danger, not just to the drivers themselves, but to other travelers on our highways.
The National Sleep Foundation has recently issued these news bulletins:
WASHINGTON, DC, November 20- About one-half of America's adult drivers - 51 percent or approximately 100 million people - are on the roads feeling sleepy while they are driving. Nearly two in 10 drivers - 17 percent or approximately 14 million people - say they have actually fallen asleep at the wheel in the past year.
These are among the findings in the National Sleep Foundation's (NSF) 2002 Sleep in America poll released today at the National Summit to Prevent Drowsy Driving in Washington, DC.
A major goal of the two-day event, spearheaded by NSF, is to make drowsy driving prevention a national public health and safety priority. The poll findings and the Summit, which is aimed at reducing the perilous poll numbers, come just days before some 70 million drivers are expected to be on the roads for the holidays.
Read the complete story here: MILLIONS DRIVE DROWSY AND FALL ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL, SAYS NEW POLL
