- Drowsy driving causes
30 % of all
fatal crashes along the New York Thruway.
-- NYS Police estimate, National Sleep
Foundation (NSF)
- Approximately
100,000
police-reported crashes annually involve
drowsiness/fatigue.
-- The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA)
- A conservative estimate of related
fatalities is
1,500
annually. -- NHTSA
- At least
71,000
people are injured in fall-asleep crashes each
year. -- NHTSA
- 62% of
adults reported driving a car while feeling
drowsy in the prior year.
27% of
adults admit to having dozed off while
driving.
23% of
adults stated that they know someone who
experienced a fall-asleep crash.
-- 1999 National Sleep Foundation poll
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