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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that over 200,000 automobile crashes are caused by drowsy drivers every year, resulting in over 1,500 deaths, 70,000 injuries, and an estimated 12.5 billion in lost productivity and property loss. The National Sleep Foundation s 2002 Sleep in America poll showed that over half of Americans said they have driven while feeling drowsy, and approximately 17% said they had actually fallen asleep while driving. ... 

The results of sleep deprivation have been linked to motor vehicle accidents, major industrial accidents such as the Exxon Valdez, and Three Mile Island, and the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (2). The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in 1999 estimated that 56,000 police-reported crashes and 4% of all traffic crash fatalities (1550 cases) involved drowsiness and fatigue as principal causes (3). Sleepiness was a probable cause in about one third of all fatal-to-driver motor vehicle accidents involving commercial truck drivers (4). 

Whole waste tires can be used for artificial reefs, breakwaters, erosion control, playground equipment, and highway crash barriers. 

Highway departments prefer sand-filled crash barriers... 

The drug store for chemicals that affect the mind has grown into a giant supermarket. Cocaine may be cited in today s fatal crash on the highway meth (methamphetamine) has moved from the heartland to many parts of the United States as a drug of choice marijuana is the subject of a current government controversy nicotine and alcohol make the headlines frequently. 

It is possible to make pure nitromethane explode. To make this happen, one needs a very strong detonator charge, and the nitromethane has to be confined in a container that will not burst easily. Without the strong walled container, the explosive wave just dies out. That s why nitromethane by itself isn t generally considered to be an explosive. The stuff is transported every day in drums by rail and highway without incident. If there should be a crash, it would burn like gasoline, and that s about all that would happen. 

Highway abutments. An approach to solving a safety problem by utilizing whole scrap tires was possible [5] by constructing highway abutment crash barriers made of whole scrap tires. If effective, driver fatality or severity of injury could be significantly reduced. 

For highway crash barriers, the same Landfill Directive stands [11]. 

Since the variable n represents subjective feelings, it is impossible to assign it an objective value. However, if a value of say 1.5 is given to n, then Eq. (1.3) for the two scenarios just discussed—the airplane crash and the highway fatalities— becomes Eqs. (1.4) and (1.5), respectively. 

And statistics, unfortunately, bear this out. Motor vehicle crashes are consislenlly the number one cause of workplace fatalities. Every day in 2009, more than two workers died on the highway, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

This message of safety and compliance has become even more important with the introduction of Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA), a FMCSA safety and compliance program. The goal of CSA is to reduce the number of large truck and bus crashes, injuries, and fatalities on our highways. 

Subpart C contains the requirements for stopped CMVs. It s inevitable, as long as there are CMVs rolhng down the highway, there will be breakdowns, crashes, and accidents — regardless of how well your drivers are trained or how well your vehicles are maintained. 

Emergency signals, stopped commercial motor vehicles, outlines the guidelines for stopped vehicles on a traveled portion of a highway. In the case of a breakdown, crash, or accident, your drivers are required to ... 

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 100,000 car crashes each year are caused by drowsy drivers, resulting in at least 1,550 deaths and 40,000 injuries. These accidents are obviously not limited to just the transportation industry, but rather to the population as a whole. No matter the circumstances, it is clear that the inattentive driving that fatigue causes results in injuries and death. 

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