Statistics Related to Drowsy Driver Crashes
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Statistics Related to Drowsy Driver Crashes
Each year, at least, 1500 people die in crashes related to sleepy, fatigued or drowsy drivers in the United States of America.
This is according to statistics gathered by the federal government. This number is most likely an underestimate.
Unless someone witnesses or survives the crash and can testify to the driver's condition, it is difficult to determine if the driver fell asleep.
Each year, at least, 40,000 people are injured in drowsy driver crashes.
For the same reasons as above, this is also probably an underestimate.
At least 100,000 crashes are caused by drowsy drives, each year.
62% of surveyed adults (72% of men and 54% of women) reported driving while feeling drowsy.
27% of adults (36% of men and 20% of women) said they have dozed off while driving in the past year.
12% of surveyed peoplesay sleeplessness affected their driving.
According the most recent figures available when my wife died in 1999, more people died in crashes caused by drowsy drivers than from each of the following causes:
- Hepatitis Type B
- Viral Hepatitis
- Kidney Infections
- Meningitits
- Acute Respiratory Infections
- Viral Pneumonia
- Influenza
- Pleurisy
- Gastritis and Duodenitis
- Appendicitis
- Abdominal Cavity Hernia
- Peritonitis
- Hypotension
- Typhoid Disorders
- Alcoholic Psychoses
- Inflamatory Diseases of the Central nervious System
- Infantile Cerebral Palsy
- Epilepsy
- Phlebitis and Thrombophlebitis
- Infections of the Skin and Subcutaneous Tissues
- Newborns Affected by Maternal Compliations of Pregnancy
- "Water Transportation" Accidents
- Air and Space Crashes
- Railroad Crashes
- Electrocutions
- Accidently shot by a firearm
- Falliong Down Stairs
- Falls from a ladder, scaffolding or a building
- Excessive Heat
- Excessive Cold
- Drowning during Sports or Recreation
- Drowning in a Bathtub
- Inhalation and Ingestion of Food
- Suffocation from Bedding, Cradles, Plastic Bags, Locked in a Small Space, Falling Earth
- Agricultural, Lifting, Earth Moving and Earth Excavation Machinery
- Accidentally Shot by a Hangun, Shotgun or Hunting Rifle
- And almost as many as Multiple Sclorosis...
Additionally, more people die each year from crashes related to Drowsy, Sleepy or Fatigued Drivers than from all of the following causes COMBINED:
- Plague
- Anthrax
- Leprosy
- Diptheria
- Whooping Cough
- Tetanus
- Smallpox
- Chicken Pox
- Measles
- Rubella
- Yellow Fever
- Dengue
- Mosquito-born Encephilitis
- Infectious Mononucleosis
- Malaria
- Venereal Diseases
- Vitamin A, B, C and D Difficiencies
- Gout
- Glaucoma
- Cataracts
- Hemorrhoids
- Chronic Sinusitis
- Pregnancies with Abortive Outcomes
- Impetigo
- Psoriasis
- Spina Bifida
- Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip
- Bites from Snakes, Lizards and Spiders
- Dog Bites
- Hornet, Wasp and Bee Stings
- Catacylsmic Earth Movements and Eruptions
- Fireworks
Here are the specific number of people who died from each of these causes. The diseases are from 1992, the accidents from 1996:
Diseases:
Abdominal Cavity Hernia...................................1,319
Acute Respiratory Infections.............................. 860
.....Chronic Sinusitis.................................... 89
Alcoholic Psychoses....................................... 384
Anthrax................................................... 0
Appendicitis.............................................. 413
Asbestosis................................................ 285
Birth Trauma.............................................. 218
Cataracts................................................. 2
Cerebral Palsy: Infantile................................. 821
Chicken Pox............................................... 100
Cholera................................................... 597
Cleft Palate and Cleft Lip................................ 14
Cystitis.................................................. 155
Dengue.................................................... 1
Diptheria................................................. 1
Drug Dependence........................................... 309
Encephilitis: Mosquito-born............................... 3
Epilepsy..................................................1,391
Gastritis and Duodenitis.................................. 641
Glaucoma.................................................. 3
Gout...................................................... 87
Hemorrhoids............................................... 13
Hepatitis: Type B.........................................1,027
Hepatitis: Viral.........................................~1,500
Herpes: Simplex and Zoster................................ 284
Hypotension............................................... 868
Inflamatory Diseases of the Central Nervious System.......1,315
Influenza.................................................1,006
Kidney Infections........................................~1,300
Leprosy................................................... 2
Lipoma.................................................... 9
Malaria................................................... 6
Measles................................................... 4
Meningitits..............................................~1,000
Mental Retardation........................................ 395
Mononucleosis: Infectious................................. 19
Newborns Affected by Maternal Compliations of Pregnancy...1,462
Peritonitis...............................................1,359
Phlebitis and Thrombophlebitis............................1,311
Plague.................................................... 1
Pleurisy.................................................. 806
Pneumonia: Viral.......................................... 532
Pregnancies with Abortive Outcomes........................ 52
.....Spontaneous Abortion................................. 9
.....Legal Induced Abortions.............................. 5
.....Illegally Induced Abortioned......................... 2
Pregnancy: Complications Related to....................... 107
Rhuematic Fever: Acute.................................... 100
Rhuematism, Excluding the Back............................ 501
Rubella................................................... 1
Schzophrenic Psychoses.................................... 292
Skin and Subcutaneous Tissue Infections................... 749
.....Impetigo............................................. 2
.....Psoriasis............................................ 29
Smallpox.................................................. 0
Spina Bifida.............................................. 162
Spine Curvature........................................... 304
Tetanus................................................... 9
Tuberculosis: Pulmanary...................................1,289
Typhoid Disorders.........................................1,062
Venereal Diseases......................................... 96
Venomous Animals and Plants............................... 81
.....Bites from Snakes, Lizards and Spiders............... 16
.....Dog Bites............................................ 18
.....Hornet, Wasp and Bee Stings.......................... 59
Vitamin A Difficiencies................................... 1
Vitamin B Difficiencies................................... 17
Vitamin C Difficiencies................................... 1
Vitamin D Difficiencies................................... 7
Yellow Fever.............................................. 0
Whooping Cough............................................ 5
And almost as many as Multiple Sclorosis..................1,900
Accidents:
Air and Space Crashes.....................................1,061
Catacylsmic Earth Movements and Eruptions................. 25
Drowning during Sports or Recreation...................... 822
Drowning in a Bathtub..................................... 281
Electrocutions............................................ 559
.....Domestic Wiring and Appliances....................... 88
.....Power Plants......................................... 158
.....Industrial Wiring and Machinery...................... 26
Excessive Heat............................................ 716
Excessive Cold............................................ 533
Falling Objects........................................... 656
Falls down Stairs.........................................1,241
Falls from a Ladder or Scaffolding........................ 352
Falls from or out of a Building........................... 467
Falls into a Hole......................................... 94
Falls by Slipping, Tripping or Stumbling.................. 491
Firearm Missles by Accident...............................1,225
.....by Handgun........................................... 233
.....by Shotgun........................................... 116
.....by Hunting Rifle..................................... 64
Fireworks................................................. 2
Hunger, Thirst, Exposure and Neglect...................... 203
Ignition of clothing...................................... 131
Inhalation and Ingestion of Food..........................1,088
Lightning................................................. 76
Machinery Accident........................................ 986
.....Agricultural Machinery............................... 514
.....Lifting Machinery.................................... 141
.....Earth Movers and Excavation Machinery................ 106
Mechanical Suffocation....................................1,062
.....Suffocation from Bedding and Cradles................. 207
.....Suffocation from Plastic Bags........................ 37
.....Suffocation from being Locked in a Small Space....... 14
.....Suffocation from Falling Earth....................... 59
Railroad Crashes.......................................... 565
"Water Transportation" Accidents.......................... 675
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