Driving Drunk
Posted by Sean on November 2, 2009
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: Nov. 2-8
November 2, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under National _____ Month/Week/DayCan drowsy driving be equated to drunk driving? If you look at the statistics of crashes and deaths caused by sleepy drivers and compare them with those of drunk drivers, it won’t take you long to see the similarity.
The National Sleep Foundation notes that a study in Australia compared various levels of sleepiness with blood alcohol levels and what they found may be surprising. Being awake for:
- 18 hours equaled a blood alcohol level of 0.05
- 24 hours equaled 0.10
- 0.08 is considered to be the level of legally drunk
It’s because of numbers like this, the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) is reminding us that November 2 through 8, 2009 is Drowsy Driving Prevention Week. The hope is that a week of awareness may help reduce the estimated 100,000 crashes, which result in more than 1,500 deaths nationwide.
The irony.
I was just ‘complaining’ about feeling drunk after a couple of midnight shifts this weekend .. and I come across this blog!
How eerie.
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bthenextstep said
New Blog Post Driving Drunk:
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: Nov. 2-8
November 2, 2009 by Mari.. http://bit.ly/4niAVA
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