RoSPA warns of fatigue threat to company drivers

A new report on the dangers of driving while tired was a warning to all fleet managers of the need to tackle fatigue in their policies on managing occupational road risk, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) has said.

Department of Transport research revealed last week that:

17% of road crashes resulting in injury or death were sleep related;
a quarter of all road crashes that caused death or serious injury were sleep related;
67% of sleep-related crashes were caused by... (206 more words)

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