title: [Tiredness and sleepiness in rural bus drivers during their job performance: Peruvian experience and proposals].
abstract: The information indicates that the traffic accidents caused by bus drivers' sleepiness or tiredness are frequent in our country. A driver that falls asleep while driving cannot perform evasive maneuvers in order to avoid crashes or getting off the track, being the result of this kind of accidents a great number of victims and infrastructure destruction. In this article we discuss the original data published in Peru up to date and make general proposals to face the problem.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Trastornos Respiratorios del Sueño, Clínica Anglo Americana, Lima, Peru. jorgerey@rcp.net.pe
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rey de Castro
authors.forename: Edmundo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rosales-Mayor
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000517:prevention & control; D001334:Automobile Driving; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005221:Fatigue / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D009790:Occupations; D010568:Peru; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000453:epidemiology*