"Tiredness can affect your mind and ability to drive in a slew of ways, too, so there's no one way in which an accident will happen. According to Susan Miller, a lead researcher and certified sleep expert at SleepMattressHQ.com, being sleepy can impair your judgment and decision-making, reduce awareness of your surroundings (from cars to road conditions to traffic signals), and affect your coordination, balance and fine motor skills."
"Jeff Kahn, a sleep expert and the CEO and co-founder of Rise Science, agreed. " Microsleeps, in particular, are a cause for alarm, as they can last only a few seconds and occur unknowingly," he said. "While this might not seem like much, on a highway traveling at 65 miles per hour, those seconds can mean the difference between life and death.""
Vacations and busy schedules often lead to exhaustion that increases the risk of drowsy driving. About 1 in 25 adult drivers reported falling asleep while driving within the past 30 days. Twenty-one percent of fatal crashes involved a drowsy driver. Sleepiness impairs judgment and decision-making, reduces awareness of surroundings including cars and road conditions, and degrades coordination, balance, and fine motor skills. Microsleeps can last only a few seconds and occur unknowingly; at highway speeds those seconds can mean the difference between life and death. Drowsy driving risks are often compared to driving under the influence.
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