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ATLANTA - The Atlanta Sleep Medicine Clinic, in association with NeuroTrials Research, recently received a driving simulator to test new sleep medications. The clinic is the only accredited sleep disorders center in Georgia to house a driving simulator.
Read More →Here is some advice to help fleet drivers stay alert -- and awake -- during long road trips.
Read More →WASHINGTON - Less than half of Americans say they get a good night's sleep every night. Combine excessive sleepiness with a vehicle and the risk for a fall-asleep crash increases significantly.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The National Sleep Foundation's 2009 Sleep in America poll shows that 1 percent, or as many as 1.9 million drivers, have had a car crash or a near miss due to drowsiness in the past year.
Read More →FURNACE CREEK, CA --- Two French teenagers were killed and five other French citizens were injured Aug. 22 in California's Death Valley, when the driver of their rented van fell asleep and the vehicle veered off the highway and rolled over.
Read More →MONTVALE, N.J. --- Drowsy driving is one of the most vexing problems involving traffic safety, with more than 60 percent of working Americans admitting to driving while feeling sleepy and 37 percent to actually falling asleep at the wheel in the past year.
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If you are driving while fatigued, you are impaired. Just like alcohol, fatigue affects your ability to drive by slowing reaction time, decreasing awareness, and impairing judgment. If you are overly tired and driving, it is the same as being drunk behind the wheel.
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