In the U.S. about 20 percent of all motor vehicle crashes are caused by tired drivers, the researchers said in JAMA Pediatrics. That translates into about 1 million crashes, 50,000 injures and 8,000 deaths every year.

“It’s a big issue that hasn’t had a lot of rigorous research. So lawmakers and policymakers may not have chosen to act on this because there wasn’t much evidence,” Martiniuk said.

For the new study, the researchers used data from a study of about 20,000 Australian drivers who were between the ages of 17 and 24 years old.

The young drivers were surveyed about their sleep habits between June 2003 and December 2004. The researchers then used government records to see which drivers were in an accident over the next two years.

Overall, about 9 percent of the 2,156 drivers who got less than six hours of sleep ended up in a crash. That compared to about 7 percent of the 17,171 who slept more than six hours.

But those who reported less than six hours of sleep also had other traits that may increase their risk of a crash. For example, drowsy drivers also drove the most, which may put them at an increased risk of a crash.

After adjusting their numbers for those additional risk factors, the researchers found that drivers who got less than six hours of sleep were still at a 21 percent increased risk of a crash.

“I am not surprised at the results as young adults are frequently sleep deprived as are many in our population,” Dr. Steven Scharf, director of the University of Maryland Medical Center’s Sleep Disorders Center in Baltimore who was not involved with the new study, told Reuters Health by email.

NIGHTTIME DRIVING BAN?

Martiniuk and her colleagues also found that sleeping less was tied to more accidents occurring between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.

“That should open the discussion of bans on nighttime driving,” Martiniuk said.

Dr. Beth Ebel, director of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center at the University of Seattle, said that nighttime driving bans and other restrictions on graduate licenses have been effective in some U.S. states.

Article source: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-21/lifestyle/sns-rt-us-drowsy-drivers-crashbre94k16q-20130521_1_crash-risk-less-than-six-hours-drivers

Chris Brown was involved in a car crash on Tuesday and Karrueche Tran was riding shotgun.

TMZ reports that Brown hit a Mercedes with his Range Rover while driving in Los Angeles near Toluca Lake. He and his model ex got out of the car to talk with the other driver, who had “medium” damage to her car.

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Brown and Tran had left his Hollywood home and were en route to the recording studio when the accident happened, according to X17 Online. Paparazzi photographed Tran taking snapshots of the damage with her phone. No cops were called, but the singer and the driver did exchange information.

Back in February, the 24-year-old crashed his Porsche into a wall while being chased by the paparazzi. He said he lost control of the car and did not sustain any injuries.

More surprising than Brown’s mishaps behind the wheel was his passenger.

Brown and Tran are apparently on again after the “Let’s Go” singer split from Rihanna before his birthday earlier this month.

The New York Post’s Page Six reports that the exes were seen getting cozy at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday in Las Vegas. Brown took Tran to Vegas as his date. After the awards show, they reportedly headed to Bruno Mars’ after-party at the Bellagio’s Bank nightclub. There, the two were seen getting close.

“Brown was standing on the banquette dancing with Tran,” a source told Page Six. “He bent down a few times to kiss her, and kept running his hand through her hair and singing to her.”

Check out more photos of Chris Brown’s car accident at X17Online.com.

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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut’s shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled railways.

Rail service from Connecticut to New York City, along with Amtrak between Boston and New York, was expected to resume by Wednesday morning rush hour, five days after the derailment and crash injured scores of passengers.

While investigators have revealed little beyond their interest in one particular rail section, Connecticut lawmakers plan hearings on the crash on the rail network servicing New York City — one they say is in need of extensive improvements.

The Metro-North crash at rush hour Friday evening injured 72 people, including one who remained in critical condition Monday. It snarled commutes for roughly 30,000 people who normally use the train.

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“It’s a lot,” he said. “It’s a nightmare just to get into the city today.”

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Article source: http://www.morningjournalnews.com/page/content.detail/id/318886/Conn--lawmakers-to-seek-hearings-on-derailment-.html?isap=1&nav=5021

We have yet another crash involving a Porsche 911 to report today, barely a week after reporting the lasy one in Germany. This one is a rare 1967 Porsche 911, the year that Porsche debuted the Targa. If you know your history well around the Targa, then you know that with its distinctive stainless steel roll bar, it made its debut in late 1966 as the world’s first ever safe cabriolet.

This crash happened in New Hampshire while a 60-year-old New York man lost control of the Porsche 911 at high speed on Route 16 in Dummer, New Hampshire on Saturday afternoon. Reports say that he was seriously injured but luckily Med-Flight attendants took him to Maine Medical Center where he is reported to be in stable condition.

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[Source: MyFoxBoston]

Article source: http://www.gtspirit.com/2013/05/22/car-crash-1967-porsche-911-crashed-by-60-year-old-driver-in-new-hampshire/

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Parents can add one more thing to the list of worries that go with young drivers: skipping sleep. A study in the journal Pediatrics suggests young drivers who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be in car accidents.

For the study, researchers looked at more than 20,000 Australian drivers ages 17 to 24, comparing their sleep habits with their driving records. They found that young drivers who sleep less than six hours a night are 20 percent more likely to get into an accident that’s reported to the police.
 
According to the study findings, those who reported getting less sleep on weekends were more than 50 percent more likely to be in crashes at night and in crashes in which they run off the road.
 
Not surprisingly, the hours between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. were found to be the most dangerous, with the highest rate of accidents for sleepy, young drivers.

In another separate study from Australia, researchers found that 60 percent of young-driver deaths happened at night.
 
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio

iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Parents can add one more thing to the list of worries that go with young drivers: skipping sleep. A study in the journal Pediatrics suggests young drivers who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be in car accidents.

For the study, researchers looked at more than 20,000 Australian drivers ages 17 to 24, comparing their sleep habits with their driving records. They found that young drivers who sleep less than six hours a night are 20 percent more likely to get into an accident that’s reported to the police.
 
According to the study findings, those who reported getting less sleep on weekends were more than 50 percent more likely to be in crashes at night and in crashes in which they run off the road.
 
Not surprisingly, the hours between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. were found to be the most dangerous, with the highest rate of accidents for sleepy, young drivers.

In another separate study from Australia, researchers found that 60 percent of young-driver deaths happened at night.
 
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio

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iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Parents can add one more thing to the list of worries that go with young drivers: skipping sleep. A study in the journal Pediatrics suggests young drivers who don’t get enough sleep are more likely to be in car accidents.

For the study, researchers looked at more than 20,000 Australian drivers ages 17 to 24, comparing their sleep habits with their driving records. They found that young drivers who sleep less than six hours a night are 20 percent more likely to get into an accident that’s reported to the police.
 
According to the study findings, those who reported getting less sleep on weekends were more than 50 percent more likely to be in crashes at night and in crashes in which they run off the road.
 
Not surprisingly, the hours between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. were found to be the most dangerous, with the highest rate of accidents for sleepy, young drivers.

In another separate study from Australia, researchers found that 60 percent of young-driver deaths happened at night.
 
Copyright 2013 ABC News Radio

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut’s shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled railways.

Rail service from Connecticut to New York City, along with Amtrak between Boston and New York, was expected to resume by Wednesday morning rush hour, five days after the derailment and crash injured scores of passengers.

While investigators have revealed little beyond their interest in one particular rail section, Connecticut lawmakers plan hearings on the crash on the rail network servicing New York City — one they say is in need of extensive improvements.

The Metro-North crash at rush hour Friday evening injured 72 people, including one who remained in critical condition Monday. It snarled commutes for roughly 30,000 people who normally use the train.

Commuters struggled Monday to find transportation, and many reported rides to work and back home far longer than on typical days.

For Gary Maddin, the drive from his home in Milford, Conn., to the Bridgeport train station normally takes 20 minutes. On Monday, it took an hour. Then he had a shuttle bus and a train ride before he got to his destination, Grand Central Terminal in New York.

“It’s a lot,” he said. “It’s a nightmare just to get into the city today.”

Some commuters used a jury-rigged alternative to the trains: A shuttle train ran between New Haven and Bridgeport, where a bus connection to Stamford circumvented the accident scene, and finally customers boarded a train for New York. That system was to continue Tuesday.

Others drove themselves, and state officials nervously watched heavy traffic on two major arteries in southwest Connecticut, Interstate 95 and the Merritt Parkway.

But transportation officials were pleased that area highways were not as choked as they feared, Malloy said. He said commuters heeded his warning over the weekend about the prospect of highways becoming parking lots if all 30,000 of the usual train riders drove instead.

Backups on the Merritt Parkway, a secondary route through Connecticut, were less than on an average Monday, and I-95 was only slightly more jammed than usual because of fog, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said.

“Today went exceedingly well,” the governor said. “People listened to us. Many people stayed home or worked from home.”

Crews have worked around the clock since Saturday, and track rebuilding has progressed quickly, officials with the Metro-North railroad said.

Resumption of service is “tremendously good news,” Malloy said at a news conference later Monday. Amtrak was also expected to be running Wednesday, state officials said.

Federal investigators arrived Saturday and were expected to be on site for seven to 10 days. They are looking at a broken section of rail to see if it is connected to the derailment and collision. Officials said it wasn’t clear whether the rail was broken in the crash or earlier.

Members of the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee said they have been briefed by state transportation officials over the years about the hefty investment Connecticut needs to make to fully upgrade the commuter rail line, including a couple of 100-year-old bridges that need to be replaced.

“It’s like anything else, you know,” said Rep. Tony Guerrera, co-chairman of the committee. “You can have a brand-new car and it runs great, but if the roads are awful, with potholes going up and down, what good is it?”

The last major collision involving Metro-North occurred in 1988 when a train engineer was killed in Mount Vernon, N.Y., when one train empty of passengers rear-ended another, railroad officials said.

CHAMPLAIN, N.Y. (AP) — State police say a 27-year-old woman has died after she was hit by a car while jogging along a rural northern New York road.

Troopers say the accident occurred around 8:45 p.m. Monday when the driver attempted to go around four runners but hit one of them as they jogged with the flow of traffic on the shoulder of a road in the town of Champlain, on the Canadian border 160 miles north of Albany.

Police identify the victim as Ashley Poissant of Champlain. She was taken to the hospital in Plattsburgh, then transferred to Fletcher Allen Health Care Center in Burlington, Vt., where she died early Tuesday.

Troopers say the driver was an 85-year-old man from the neighboring town of Mooers.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation.

Article source: http://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Northern-NY-woman-dies-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-4534614.php

An Ohio dad who gave his 9-year-old daughter a driving lesson ended up in jail — after she lost control and slammed the car into a tree.

Jaron McGee, 23, was arrested Sunday after the horrible crash in the Headland’s State Park parking lot near Cleveland.

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Cops say he let the girl take full control of the 1998 4-door Honda shortly after 8 p.m.

But she reached “excessive speeds” and ended up plowing into a tree. The two, who incredibly were both uninjured, fled the scene.

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Officers traced the car to their home where McGee was arrested on child endangerment and wrongful entrustment, reports The Smoking Gun.

He was booked into the Lake County Jail. He is also being held on two warrants from unconnected incidents.

Article source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/dad-teaches-daughter-9-drive-flee-crash-article-1.1350192