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Selby boosts fatigue campaign

20th December 2001
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• Road transport organisations and lobby groups are renewing calls for tougher action on tired drivers in the wake of the Selby rail crash.

Gary Hart was found guilty of 10 charges of causing death by dangerous driving at the end of a 12-day trial at Leeds Crown Court last week, after admitting not sleeping on the night before his car plunged down an embankment and onto the East Coast railway line. Kevin Clinton, head of road safety for The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), says: "Employers must ensure their employees, including company car and van drivers, do not drive when they are tired."

Road safety campaign group Brake refers to the issue of driver tiredness as "the big hidden killer on our roads"; it wants a national adiertising campaign to highlight the potential dangers and more thorough police investigations of all accidents.

A new company, christened Awake, has been set up by the Loughboroughbased Sleep Research Centre to train drivers to understand the ways that fatigue can affect performance and quality of life.

• Australian and New Zealand-based research in 2000 found that drivers who sleep fewer than seven hours a day are more of a road risk than those who have drunk alcohol.


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