Long distance in night with several drivers

Better without belt recumbent in the bed with a slept well driver than to risk with belts an accident with an overtired driver.

   Long distance in night with several drivers Better without belt recumbent in the bed with a slept well driver than to risk with belts an accident with an overtired driver.









  Trafic security counts


At many people an outcry of shocl: 4 sleepers behind without belts. What a bottomless carelessness! But let us look to the statistics of accidents.

Strategy A: Exchange the driver each 2 hours, 4 sleepers behind. Drive stady with the speed of a big bus. Practicall no danger of fall asleep acidents.

Strategy B: Nocturnal haste with top speed. The target has to be reached before falling asleep. What comes first? Calais or the sleep of the driver. Exchange the driver is sensless, because at high speed and siting is no recreative sleep possible.

I bet, that variant A has the much lower risk for all involved. The only risk is a head on colission with a vehicle coming against with sleeping driver after crossing the middle of the highway.



  1991 Avoid fall asleep accidents


Many long distance travels at night time in my Renault Espace TXE. The longest was to London in September. Exchange the driver every 2 hours against a sleeper.

England travel in Pullman
Take to the road in Munich in the night. Next morning slept well in the harbor of Calais. Below the minivan class, this travel would have been a torture.




Context description:  long distance car travel travels in night time
event events date 20 century