Survey on Dozing and Driving by College Students A recent study done at a large private university identified 97 college students who reported having a dozing-related incident while driving. * Almost half of these drowsy driving incidents occurred while driving home for break or vacation. * 4 out of 5 of these students momentarily dozed while driving . * 18.6 % actually fell asleep.     Frequency of Students' Driving and Dozing-Related Traffic Incidents Severity Momentarily dozed 81.4% Fell asleep 18.6% Lane/Shoulder drift 53.6% Left road 8.7% Vehicle damage 4.1% Injury 1.0% Class rank at time of close call Freshman 22.9% Sophomore 34.5% Junior 17.2% Senior 17.2% Graduate 8.0% Purpose of travel Home on break 25.8% Vacation 23.2% Weekend getaway 18.4% Driving to work or on job 10.2% Other 22.4% Many close calls for college students occurred during July and August and on Fridays between 11PM and 2 AM. * Seasonal Trends in Students' Reported Dozing-Related Traffic Incident * Daily Trend in students' Reported Dozing-Related Traffic Incidents Souce: Lindsay, G. A., Hanks, W. A., Hurley, R. D., and Dane, S. (1999). Descriptive epideminology of dozing and driving in a college student population. JACH 44, p. 157-162. * Data are for those students who reported having a driving and dozing-related incident (N=97) Top of the Page Go Back to Home