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    Fatigued Truck Drivers...Might Cost You Your Life. The document proposes a safety program to address the problem of fatigued truck drivers causing accidents in Dallas. Approximately 795 deaths in 2017 and over 91,000 crashes were caused by drowsy driving. The program would provide hotel discounts to truck drivers to encourage well-rested driving. It would be implemented over one month with a $25,000 budget and involve surveys and objective accident data collection to measure success in minimizing accident risk from tired commercial drivers. The program aims to benefit truckers, their employers, other motorists, and health organizations.

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    Fatigued Truck Drivers...Might Cost You Your Life. The document proposes a safety program to address the problem of fatigued truck drivers causing accidents in Dallas. Approximately 795 deaths in 2017 and over 91,000 crashes were caused by drowsy driving. The program would provide hotel discounts to truck drivers to encourage well-rested driving. It would be implemented over one month with a $25,000 budget and involve surveys and objective accident data collection to measure success in minimizing accident risk from tired commercial drivers. The program aims to benefit truckers, their employers, other motorists, and health organizations.

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    Fatigued Truck Drivers...Might Cost You Your Life. The document proposes a safety program to address the problem of fatigued truck drivers causing accidents in Dallas. Approximately 795 deaths in 2017 and over 91,000 crashes were caused by drowsy driving. The program would provide hotel discounts to truck drivers to encourage well-rested driving. It would be implemented over one month with a $25,000 budget and involve surveys and objective accident data collection to measure success in minimizing accident risk from tired commercial drivers. The program aims to benefit truckers, their employers, other motorists, and health organizations.

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    Fatigued Truck Drivers…

    Might Cost You Your Life.

    Toni-Ann Samuels, Suriel Torres,


    and Victoria Martinez
    Introduction
    ▫ Our purpose: To educate the public and propose a safety
    measure that creates a safer driving experiences for all motorists
    on the road.
    ▫ Presentation Overview:
    ▫ Program overview
    ▫ Implementation of program
    ▫ Measuring Success
    ▫ How participants and stakeholders will benefit

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    Brief overview
    ▫Approximately 795 deaths have occurred in 2017 from drowsy
    driving in Dallas. With more than 91,000 vehicle crashes from the same
    cause (Drowsy Driving, 2019).

    ▫These crashes are usually single driver events, with the most of
    them occurring between 12AM and 6AM.

    ▫We lose thousands of people to these avoidable accidents and


    driving long hours are sometimes to blame.

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    Our Scope
    We do not plan on completely
    eradicating fatigued driving,
    but rather lessening the
    accidents that are a result of.

    4
    20,000 (Grossman Law Offices, PC & Grossman, 2019)

    Accidents caused by a semi-truck each year in the Dallas


    Area

    5
    Description of Program
    ▫ The objective of the program is to minimize (as
    complete lack of risk is near impossible) the risk of
    accidents caused by truck drivers. This can be
    achieved by:
    ▫ Granting the truck drivers, a discount in hotels to
    encourage a well-rested and alert driver on the next
    commute day.

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    Our Plan for Implementation
    ▫ Budget ▫ Time frame ▫ Personnel
    In order to implement The time frame will The personnel will be
    our program, we will be for about a month. composed of truck
    require some state In order to ensure data drivers and their
    funding. Around the collected is expansive respective employers
    amount of $25,000 for and accurate.  as well as healthcare
    supplies and crew professionals. 
    payment.

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    Our Plan to Measure for Success
    ▫ Survey ▫ Objective data
    A survey will be administered at Because drowsiness is
    the end of the experiment in subjective, we will look at
    order to measure subjective accident propensity and driving
    signs. quality to measure success. 

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    Benefitting Participants and Stakeholders
    ▫ Commercial truck drivers
    ▫ Companies and managers of these truck drivers
    ▫ Other drivers on the road
    ▫ Healthcare Professionals
    ▫ The Texas Health and Human Services Commission
    and the Texas Department of States Health Services.

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    References
    Drowsy Driving. (2019, July 22). NHTSA.
    https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drowsy-driving

    Grossman Law Offices, PC, & Grossman, M. (2019, June 10). Truck Accidents Caused by
    Tired Drivers - Attorney Blog. Grossman Law Offices.
    https://www.injuryrelief.com/truck-accident-law/causal-factors/driver-fatigue/

    10
    Thanks!
    Any questions?
    You can email me at:
    Toniann.samuels@mavs.uta.edu

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