The Main Cause Of Accidents In The USA Is Drowsy Drivers

The Main Cause Of Accidents In The USA Is Drowsy Drivers.
Driving sleepy is a pre-eminent factor in traffic accidents and deaths in the United States, federal strength officials reported Thursday. Federal statistics state that 2,5 percent of harmful motor vehicle crashes and 2 percent of crashes with non-fatal injuries encompass drowsy driving. But, data gathering methods make it difficult to guess the actual number of accidents that involve drowsy drivers. In fact, some studies have estimated that between 15 percent and 33 percent of catastrophic crashes may involve sleepy drivers.

And deaths and injuries are more reasonable in motor vehicle crashes that involve drowsy driving, the report stated. According to the dispatch by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 4 percent of drivers quizzed said they had driven while tired in the month before the survey. "One out of 25 people reported falling asleep while driving in the history month," said CDC epidemiologist Anne Wheaton, the report's model author. "If you think of how many cars you see every day, one out of 25 - that's a mellifluous big number".

And those numbers may underestimate the scope of the problem, Wheaton said. "These were common people who realized they had fallen asleep while they were driving," she said. "If you fall asleep for even a second you may not realize it - so that's not even taking those people into account".