"Sleepiness, Sleep Apnea, and Driving: Still Miles To go Before We Safely Sleep"

Over the past 10 to 15 years, the problem of drowsy driving has received increasing attention. The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that each year, 100,000 police-reported crashes are the direct result of driver fatigue.

Many researchers believe that these estimates are conservative (1), in part due to lack of awareness by many crash investigators of drowsiness (fatigue) as cause for many crashes and the lack of simple, reliable field measures of sleepiness (c.f. breathalyzer for alcohol levels), which could provide evidence for causality.

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