While some police officers have a good understanding of the magnitude and characteristics of the fatigued driving problem, many report that more information about this issue can help them target and enhance enforcement efforts. In a recent survey of some 800 police officers in Ontario, conducted by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF), more than half of those surveyed (56.6%) felt that they had not received adequate information about ways to identify drivers who are drowsy or fatigued or to determine the role of fatigue in crashes. Officers are not always able to determine whether fatigue played a role in a crash if adequate evidence or eyewitness accounts are not available. Good information about fatigued driving can help law enforcement personnel recognize and remove these drivers from the roadway. It can also enable officers to identify fatigue-related crashes and improve enforcement strategies to reduce this problem. This guidebook contains the facts about fatigued drivers, fatigued driving crashes, current enforcement strategies, and ways that they can be strengthened to reduce fatigued-driving. It summarizes peer-reviewed research and the findings from two Ontario polls conducted by TIRF of more than 800 police officers in Ontario, and some 750 Ontario drivers. (Author/publisher) This report may be accessed by Internet users at: http://www.tirf.ca/publications/PDF_publications/2009_Facts_Fatigue_Dri…
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