Trucker Sleep
Dr Mark Roseland of the National Transportation Safety Board has warned that a lack of sleep can cause your performance to be impaired.
He stated that the average time someone should spend sleeping is eight hours a day, and if you are to lose only two of these hours in one night, your performance while driving will be the same as someone driving when they have been drinking alcohol.
He went on to say, that not only can lack of sleep in one single night affect the ability to concentrate, but that you can also accumulate, what he called, a sleep debt over time.
Losing one hour’s sleep a day for a five day week would mean a sleep debt of five hours. However this debt can be cancelled out by sleeping for longer at the weekend.
The good news is that you do not have to sleep for the whole five hours you have lost, as someone with sleep debt will sleep deeper and hence there is no need to sleep for the whole five hours.
However, should your sleep debt begin to mount up significantly, then it will become harder and harder to make it up and your performance will continue to be impaired.
Driving while drowsy is an incredibly hazardous activity. If you, or someone you know, have been injured in a serious car accident in South Carolina involving drowsy driver, please contact us today at (864) 280-7660 or contact us online, so we can schedule your free initial consultation and get you on you the financial compensation you deserve.
