Sleepiness and fatigue during driving: relationship with road traffic accidents in Peruvians highways

A tired driver, or a driver who falls asleep at the wheel cannot perform evasion maneuvers for avoiding a car crash, or he/she may also get out of the road so easily; and the consequence of these accidents is a huge number of victims and infrastructure destruction. The information based on local stu...

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Autores: de Castro Mujica, Jorge Rey, Rosales Mayor, Edmundo, Egoavil Rojas, Martha
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2009
País:Perú
Recursos:Colegio Médico del Perú
Repositório:Acta Médica Peruana
Idioma:espanhol
OAI Identifier:oai:amp.cmp.org.pe:article/1493
Acesso em linha:https://amp.cmp.org.pe/index.php/AMP/article/view/1493
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Accidentes de tránsito
Somnolencia
Cansancio
Conductor
Road accidents
Sleepiness
Tiredness
Bus driver
Descrição
Resumo:A tired driver, or a driver who falls asleep at the wheel cannot perform evasion maneuvers for avoiding a car crash, or he/she may also get out of the road so easily; and the consequence of these accidents is a huge number of victims and infrastructure destruction. The information based on local studies indicates that many road accidents in Peru are caused by drivers falling asleep or because of driving so tired. We discuss in this paper the original data published in Peru and we propose some guidelines in order to address this problem.