Why am I tired after long car rides?
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What are 5 signs of driver fatigue?
Jaylen Murazik
2025-07-22 23:31:11
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These include: yawning, noticing your eyes closing for a moment or going out of focus, blinking more than usual, feeling drowsy, tired or exhausted, having trouble keeping your head up. Forgetting the previous few minutes of driving, starting to 'see' things, droning and humming in ears, general tiredness, stiffness and cramps, aches and pains, daydreaming, experiencing slower reaction times, changing speed without reason, fumbling for gear changes, drifting in the lane or over lane lines.
Adele Buckridge
2025-07-15 14:32:49
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You can avoid fatigue crashes by recognising the early warning signs:
yawning
poor concentration
tired or sore eyes
restlessness
drowsiness
slow reactions
boredom
feeling irritable
making fewer and larger steering corrections
missing road signs
having difficulty staying in the lane.
If you show any of these signs, park in a safe place and take a break or nap.
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Rusty Reichert
2025-07-09 19:41:10
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Frequent yawning is one of the first things you notice when you start getting tired, yawning once probably isn't a sign of anything but frequent and continuous yawning is. Difficulty keeping your eyes on the road is another sign, when your occasional glances at scenery turn into you forcing yourself to stay focused and struggling to keep your eyes both open and on the road. Head nodding is a sign of micro-sleep which is extremely common with driver fatigue, it may only last 3 seconds, but when travelling 90km/hr down a highway, 3 seconds is a long time to be unconscious for.
Irregular speed is also a sign, when you’re tired, your speed fluctuates, going up and down with no rhyme or reason, making you an exceptionally unpredictable driver. Drifting in and out of your lane is a pretty good sign that you’re getting tired, one of the first rules of driving is to stick to your lane, so when you start not wandering outside the lines, it’s a pretty good sign that you’re getting tired.
Kacey Hermann
2025-06-27 17:30:43
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Fatigue is the physical and mental impairment brought on by the lack of sleep. You become at risk of nodding off while driving and therefore increase your risk of being involved in a crash. Several studies suggest that fatigue is associated with increased crash risk. Estimates of crash risk range between three to eight times due to not enough sleep the night before the trip. Studies have shown that the groups most at risk from driver fatigue are: young men, people working night shifts, those who drive for a living such as commercial drivers, people with sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea. Those suffering from sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea are at a higher risk of falling asleep while driving. Patients with OSA are up to seven times more likely to have a road traffic collision than the general population as a result of sleepiness.
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Christina Kuphal
2025-06-20 14:47:10
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Some common symptoms of driver fatigue include: Yawning, Tired and/or dry eyes, Daydreaming and/or an inability to concentrate, Difficulty focusing your vision on the road, Slow blinks and/or blinking more than usual, Involuntary head nods, Bodily aches and pains, A decline in your driving style, such as slower reaction times, unnecessary changes in speed or drifting out of your lane.
If you experience any of these symptoms while driving, make sure you find a safe place to stop as soon as possible.
Tiredness affects a driver’s reaction times and concentration levels, and with that comes a greater risk of accidents.
Fatigue can be caused by many things – from simple things such as a lack of sleep or driving for too long, to more specific factors such as jetlag, ill health and even certain medications.
The Highway Code states that driving when you’re tired greatly increases your risk of collision.