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In\u00a0light of the\u00a0Tracy Morgan lawsuit<\/a>, I thought I would address fatigued driving. This often occurs when a person is sleep deprived.\u00a0Drowsydriving.org<\/a>\u00a0states that driving fatigued is almost the same as driving while impaired. Your response time is lessened, you have problems processing information, your mood is affected and your agility is compromised. In the U.S., it is estimated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that\u00a0at least 2% of all fatal accidents<\/a>\u00a0are caused by drowsy driving. This is likely conservative because unlike alcohol, there is no test for drowsiness.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n There are laws in place for professional drivers dictating how long they should be on the road and how long they should rest. These are extremely difficult to monitor. Those regulations do not exist for private drivers, and if you are drowsy and drive, you could be charged with careless driving and reckless driving among other things.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n The key when driving is to be alert. If you are distracted or tired, you are a danger – end of story. Both your life and the lives of other\u2019s are too precious to gamble on. You do not want to live with the guilt of taking someone\u2019s life by drinking, doing drugs, being distracted or being drowsy behind the wheel.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sun Media In\u00a0light of the\u00a0Tracy Morgan lawsuit, I thought I would address fatigued driving. This often occurs when a person is sleep deprived.\u00a0Drowsydriving.org\u00a0states that driving fatigued is almost the same as driving while impaired. Your response time is lessened, you have problems processing information, your mood is affected and your agility is compromised. In the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12,10,11,14,15,16,17,13],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-accident","tag-diamond-and-diamond","tag-injury","tag-injury-prevention","tag-liability","tag-negligence","tag-road-safety","tag-safety","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diamondlaw.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}