SLEEPING DRIVERS
March 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEA RECENT Canadian survey into drivers falling asleep at the wheel has revealed that a majority of the cases occurred in the late afternoon and not at night, a more obvious presumption. The study, conducted by the country's Traffic Injury Research Foundation, said that roughly one-third of the drivers who admitted to dozing off said that it occurred in the afternoon. The second most common time was after midnight, accounting for another quarter of the cases. However, the data showed that those who had nodded off had not been driving very long, with ...
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