Statistics - DRIVER FATIGUE

Driver Fatigue is a major factor in up to 20% of the annual road toll throughout Australia.
Although the majority of fatigued drivers involved in fatal crashes are males, fatigue can affect any driver.
The risk of a fatal fatigue crash is highest between 10pm and 6am when your body’s circadian rhythms are programming you to sleep - four times greater than for the rest of the day.
Driving while sleep deprived, especially late at night and at dawn increases the risk of having a microsleep and losing control of your vehicle. A microsleep is a brief and unintended loss of consciousness.
During a 4 second microsleep a car travelling at 100km/hr will travel 111metres while completely out of the drivers control.

Want to learn more? Check out:

Roads and Traffic Authority, New South Wales, Australia
Driver fatigue
http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/fatigue/index.html

National Roads and Motorists' Association, Australia
Driver fatigue
http://mynrma.com.au/question_answer_fat.asp

VicRoads, Australia
Managing driver fatigue
http://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/NR/rdonlyres/C58652D0-D6AD-4655-8CEF-A57FED7D98F8/0/VRPIN004721.pdf

Monash University Accident Research Centre, Australia
Fatigue and fatigue research: The Australian experience
http://www.monash.edu/muarc/reports/papers/fatigue.html