Description: This essay was for a traffic psychology class. It is basically a good overview of driver fatigue and the impact it has had (especially on Australian roads). It has a lot of statistics which are all relatively current (up to 2000).
Driver fatigue is found to be a factor in hundreds of road accidents in Australia every year. This report will set out to examine the phenomenon known as driver fatigue and cover such topics as causes, its contribution to road accidents and fatalities, as well as prevention measures in an attempt to better understand this overwhelming problem.
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