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Snoring and drivingThe Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network, published in June 2003, provided some horrific statistics. Sleepiness at the wheel, or drowsy driving, is said to be the cause of about 22% of road accidents on major highways (where accidents happen at high speed and no signs of any avoidance - e.g. braking - being taken). In fact it’s the cause of more road deaths than alcohol. A UK poll shows that up to 11% of drivers admit to having fallen asleep at the wheel. According to the DOE, Transport and Regions 1999 ‘valuation of the benefits of prevention of road accidents and casualties’ estimated that the estimated cost to society of a fatal accident was £1,250,000. 3,200 died in UK car accidents last year so what was the cost of sleepiness? As there might have been more than one fatality per accident, it would be fairer to work on a figure of 2,500. Even so twenty percent of this - 500 - times £1,250,000 is £62,500,000. And that’s the cost of the fatalities. The cost of those brain damaged, not dead, is much greater. |
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