Research on sleep, and sleep disorders in particular, has exploded in recent years. Scientists are finding out more all the time about what affects sleep. And yet there remain many aspects of how and why people sleep - or don't sleep - that remain deeply mysterious....
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Fatigued Driving
Trucking industry rules regarding texting and driving hours
Due to fatigue, distraction and other causes, truck crashes kill and seriously injure tens of thousands of people across the country each year. In a state like Texas, it's often said that bigger is better. However, this is not true when it comes to large trucks and...
Drowsy driving, sleep aids attributed to car accident risk
We all could use a little more sleep. The majority of American operate on very little sleep. This can lead to fatigue during the day and problems focusing. To help get more sleep, some people ask their doctors for prescription sleep aids such as Ambien. These sleep...
Tired teens more likely to cause car accidents
Teenagers and young adults across the country are often staying up late, playing video games or cramming for tests. Some of them are getting less than six hours of sleep at night, and a new study has found that those operating on less than six hours of sleep have a...
More On Drowsy Driving: FDA Acts To Reduce Sleep Aid Risks
Our last post covered the recent attention that has focused on drowsy driving dangers in the wake of a new report highlighting the number of fatal crashes that involve fatigued drivers. This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration entered the picture by approving...
Big Rig Trucker Convicted on Felony Charges After Fatal Accident
He'll get 25 years behind bars for an accident last year that claimed the life of a mother of two children. On his way back from a long run and tired, the trucker was behind the wheel beyond the maximum number of hours allowed under the hours-of-service rules, which...
Severely obese truck drivers with sleep apnea cause more wrecks
What do you get when you mix sleep apnea with truck driving? You get more accidents from driving while fatigued, as Frances Childress reports for the Examiner. According to a study published in the journal Accident Analysis & Prevention, severely obese truck...
Reducing truck accidents the goal of new regulations
The severity of injuries and the rate of fatalities from truck accidents can be surprising to some but should not be trivialized. The risk of serious consequences to Texas motorists when involved in accidents that involve large commercial trucks is very real. The...
Driving While Sleepy Caused Last Year’s Major Bus Crash
Last year, it seemed as though not a day went by when we didn't hear about some kind of major accident involving a commuter bus in the New England area. Nowadays, given the oil and natural gas boom in Texas, we hear more about Eagle Ford Shale accidents involving...
Truck driver gets prison time for making false entries in logbook
As David Chang reports for NBC 10, a truck driver who caused a major accident - when in his logbook he'd indicated he was sleeping in the cab of his truck - got more than a year in prison for making that false entry. In fact, the driver was alleged to have made 15...