LAST month a Land Rover travelling on the M62 motorway veered off the road
and crashed onto a railway track close to the village of Great Heck, near
Selby, in Yorkshire. It derailed the 4.45 am express from Newcastle, which was
then hit by a speeding freight train. Ten people were killed. Initial suspicions
focused on the possibility that the driver of the Land Rover had fallen
asleep.
Driver fatigue is a major cause of road accidents in Britain. The Department
of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) holds statistics on 40,000
serious injuries and 3500 deaths on…
