Driving while tired is the second highest cause of car accidents after drinking while driving. But it's not just driving that is affected by lack of sleep. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that workplace accidents from sleep deprivation cost $31 billion of damage every year. Chronic lack of sleep fogs
Driving while tired is the second highest cause of car accidents after drinking while driving. But it's not just driving that is affected by lack of sleep. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimated that workplace accidents from sleep deprivation cost $31 billion of damage every year. Chronic lack of sleep fogs the mind and makes people more likely to make mistakes at school or work. It makes us emotionally volatile and more prone to illness. Sleep is such a powerful drive that if you really need it, the brain is going to say, sleep. And that can be an incredibly dangerous situation. Some drowsy drivers even experience a phenomenon called micro sleep, where you fall asleep for just a few seconds without realizing it. To better understand this phenomenon, ABC's Ron Claiborne put himself behind the wheel in a shocking experiment on Nightline about drowsy drivers.
Nightline, 12/3/2012
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