Fatal accidents following changes in daylight savings time: The American experience

Sleep Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 31-36

  Varughese, Jason ^a   Allen, Richard P ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption; Behavioral changes; Circadian; Daylight savings time; Sleep loss; Traffic accidents

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADAPTATION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAR DRIVING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DROWSINESS; FATALITY; HUMAN; NIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SLEEP TIME; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035119878     PISSN: 13899457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9457(00)00032-0     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Adjusting to the changes to and from daylight saving time
2. Sleepiness and ethanol effects on simulated driving
3. Daylight savings time and traffic accidents
4. Traffic accident increases as a possible indicant of desynchronosis
5. Letter to the editor
6. Accidental death and the shift to daylight savings time
7. Alcohol-related mortality in the United States, 1979-1988