Drawn from the almost 6000 Guardian by Seeing Machines that have been installed in commercial vehicles, the new data shows the effect of seasonal physiological patterns.<\/p>\n
Fatigue spikes during the wintry months of August to September, and is at its lowest in January to February, while Tuesdays tend to be the day most microsleep incidents occur.<\/p>\n
More than 900,000 risky driving events were recorded by the driver safety advocacy group between July 2024 and June 2025, 19,336 of which were related to fatigue.<\/p>\n
Dylan Thomsen, a spokesperson for AA, said tired driving needed to be treated as seriously as drunk driving or distracted driving.<\/p>\n
\u201cPast research from the AA found about half of fatal crashes involved people recklessly breaking the rules but half involved people simply making a mistake – with distraction or fatigue likely to be involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
AutoSense CEO Charles Dawson says the new data reflects the human risk of fatigue. Photo \/ AutoSense<\/p>\n
The authorities can lead this response by emphasising the dangers and warning signs of tiredness, Thomsen suggests.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo many drivers underestimate how fatigue slows their reactions and affects their judgement, and there isn\u2019t enough public awareness about those risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Zealand Police said they encourage safe driving at all times as part of their road safety campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis includes ensuring you are not impaired by fatigue, alcohol or drugs, that you are alert and free from distraction, driving at a safe speed within the speed limit and ensuring everyone is properly restrained in a seatbelt or child car seat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Distraction caused more than 51,000 of the risky driving events, one in four of which was related to the use of a mobile phone.<\/p>\n
This was why human intervention was a crucial safety mechanism, AutoSense CEO Charles Dawson said.<\/p>\n
The company has made more than 14,000 intervention calls in the last year, behind each of which \u201cis a person with a family waiting for them at home\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we can reduce fatigue and distraction during the most routine moments – like the morning school run – then we\u2019re doing something that genuinely matters: helping drivers, and everyone around them, get home safely.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drawn from the almost 6000 Guardian by Seeing Machines that have been installed in commercial vehicles, the new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1558,46331,29422,8452,4189,150412,3553,2082,42,185,5511,1304,3025,43,3766,13028,13084,1560,1527,12860,2838,4062,165,2044,40,38,41,39,8218,2963],"class_list":["post-262784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-been","tag-commute","tag-crashes","tag-dangerous","tag-driving","tag-dropoffs","tag-fatigue","tag-for","tag-headlines","tag-is","tag-just","tag-morning","tag-most","tag-news","tag-parents","tag-peak","tag-prepare","tag-report","tag-return","tag-revealed","tag-routine","tag-school","tag-their","tag-time","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-warns","tag-zealands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}