Safe Driving Course - Unit 4

Cell phone use accounts for approximately 2,600 vehicle fatalities and 300,000 collisions each year. Overall risk of a collision while using a cell phone increases by ___ percent.

400%

Sleeping for more than 20 minutes to wake yourself up can make you groggy for at least __ minutes after awakening.

5 min

Limit your driving to a maximum of ___ miles per day.

500 miles

Working the night shift increases your risk by nearly ___ times. Rotating-shift workers and people working more than 60 hours a week need to be particularly careful.

6

__ percent of adult drivers, about 168 million people, say they have driven a vehicle while feeling drowsy in the past year, and more than ___ (36 percent, or 103 million people) admit to having actually fallen asleep at the wheel! Drivers may experience short bursts of sleep lasting only a few seconds (microsleeps) or fall asleep for a longer period of time.

60%; 1/3rd

How much sleep should you get before driving?

7 to 9 hours of sleep per night for adults and 8 to 9 hours for teens

Over __% of drivers rated talking on a handheld cell phone while driving as unacceptable, yet __% of those same drivers admitted doing this within the last 30 days.

70%; 30%

Up to __% of collisions involve some form of driver inattention.

80%

__% of drivers said that text messaging while driving was unacceptable, but __% of those drivers admitted to having read or sent a text message or email while driving in the last 30 days

95%; 18%

True or False. When you are driving you can count on symptoms like yawning or nodding of the head to give you warning that you are about to fall asleep.

False; About half of drivers who survived a drowsy driving crash reported than their bodies gave them no warnings at all before they fell asleep.

True or False. If a driver with road rage approaches your vehicle you should get out of your car.

False; stay in your car, it offers protection

__ of drivers who crashed after falling asleep did not detect any signs of drowsiness before the crash.

Half

What is the single biggest reason that drivers feel less safe on the road today compared to five years ago?

distracted driving

Looking away from the road for just two seconds ___ your risk of being in a crash.

doubles

Specifically, for teen drivers, the addition of just one teen passenger __ the likelihood of experiencing a fatal crash. With two or more teen passengers, the risk of a fatal crash jumps by ___ percent.

doubles; 300%

One study indicated that talking on a cell phone was over ___ times more likely to cause a near crash than the next-most frequent cause of distraction.

four

What is it called when there is sudden, unexpected moments of sleep for 4 to 5 seconds? 4-5 seconds, traveling 50 mph, your vehicle can travel the length of a football field.

micro-sleep

Most people experience lows in their Circadian rhythm between approximately __ and __, and again between approximately __ to __ .

midnight and 6 am; 2 to 4 pm

Per a new Virginia law, text messaging and emailing are prohibited by all drivers except for operators of emergency vehicles. A violation of this law is a traffic infraction, carrying a penalty of __ for the first offense, and __ for the second and subsequent offenses.

$20; $50

Research shows that being awake for 18 hours can produce impairment approximately equal to a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of __ percent. After 24 hours awake, the impairment rises to that roughly equal to a BAC of __ percent.

.05%; .10%

Each year, driver inattention is a factor in more than ___ crashes in North America.

1 million

You should be able to drive a reasonable distance without difficulty if you stop for at least __ minutes every two hours or every __ miles and make regular stops for fuel, food and restrooms.

10 min; 100 miles

NHTSA estimates that each year, over ___ crashes involve drowsy driving. These crashes lead to an estimated 71,000 injuries and over 1,500 deaths each year as well as $125 billion in monetary loss.

100,000

Drivers under __ are involved in over two-thirds of all fall-asleep crashes. Additionally, these drivers are __ times more likely to experience a sleep-related crash as drivers age 30 and older.

30; 4 times