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News: Wake up! Drowsy driving kills 1,550 each year Sep 2nd 2012, 04:42 News Wake up! Drowsy driving kills 1,550 each year Sep 2nd 2012, 04:20 When you snooze, you lose. That's the message the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the Florida Department of Transportation and state officials want to make known about drowsy driving. After a study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found 37 percent of Americans admitted to falling asleep while driving, the Florida Legislature has proclaimed the first week of September every year to be Drowsy Driving Prevention Week. "Studies show the fatality rate is higher for crashes where a driver falls asleep," Julie L. Jones, executive director of the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, said in a release. More than 100,000 crashes are caused by drowsy driving each year, causing 40,000 injuries and 1,550 deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. AAA predicts about 33 million Americans will travel 50 or more miles from home during this Labor Day holiday weekend. The sponsor of the bill designating the week, Rep. Alan Williams of District 8, said in a release that drowsy driving can be just as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. Williams sponsored the bill in memory of a Tallahassee girl, Ronshay Dugans, 8, who was killed in 2008 when the driver of a cement truck fell asleep at the wheel and hit the bus she was riding. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed, or manage all your subscriptions

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