Article: Teens Can't Cheat Sleep: New Liberty Mutual and SADD Survey Shows Teens Reporting Less Than Eight Hours of Sleep Are Twice as Likely to Fall Asleep at the Wheel.

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Drowsy Driving Prevention Week is November 10-16, 2008

BOSTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Teens who get less than eight hours of sleep per night on average are twice as likely to say they have fallen asleep at the wheel (20 percent) than are teens who report getting an average of eight or more hours of sleep per night (10 percent), according to a new Liberty Mutual Insurance and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) survey. The national survey of 3,580 students in grades ten, eleven and twelve also found that 36 percent of teens often drive when ...

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