Riding with fatigue

[scumdog]

Interesting one this.....here's a link that shows evidence that people having lss then 6 hours sleep can have the same reactions as somebody over the drink drive limit. So if you wouldn't drink and ride why would you ride when overtired or sleep deprived.

True, I was getting a lift from a mate one a hot sunny day when I was really tired, while he was talking I couldn't really understand what he was saying, the road signs did not seem to make sense and long story short: I suddenly realise I felt the same as when I was drunk - very scary!!

[bluninja]

Imagine if this was picked up as an offence (to reduce the road toll)???

Excuse me sir....I've follwed you for the last few kms and you seem to be driving rather erratically....so can you tell me....how many hours sleep have you had??

In the UK we've already had a big accident were a car drove off the road onto a railway track and caused a train crash that killed people....but how do you legislate??? I guess this is truly one road safety item that can only be moved along by education.

I remember one of my mates in NZ drove trucks for a living. He said he used to have crates of coke and cans of red bull to keep him going. Would chat on the radio to anybody just to keep him awake........if he's typical of truckers pulling long hours...then that's a lot of drivers that are unfit to be driving some of the time.

[bikemike]

In the UK we've already had a big accident were a car drove off the road onto a railway track and caused a train crash that killed people....but how do you legislate??? I guess this is truly one road safety item that can only be moved along by education.

Wasn't this guy running a couple of jobs and an Internet 'relationship'?

Maybe we should all log off before midnight....