* Brian Lefley, NHL
hockey play and winning coach of the Italian
national team, was killed when he dozed
at the wheel and ran into an oncoming truck.
* Mike
Tyson, the former heavyweight boxing
champ, dumped his motorcycle when he snapped out of
a snooze to find himself about to run over his
traveling companion.
* Screenwriter Paul
Jarrico died after his car ran off the
Pacific Coast Highway, when he apparantly dozed off
at the wheel driving home from a ceremony.
Source: National Sleep
Foundation
But you don't have to
be driving to be in a "fall-asleep
crash"
John Hockenberry wasn't. Winner of many journalism
awards including two Peabodys, Hockenberry is
currently a correspondent on Dateline NBC.
He was a student at the University of Chicago
when he got a ride while hitchhiking along a
stretch of I-80. While he and the other two
passengers in the car slept, the driver fell asleep
at the wheel.
The car left the highway and shot down an
embankment. While the other two passengers escaped
serious physical injury Hockenberry had to be
extricated from the car. Because of severe injuries
to his spinal cord, John Hockenberry was paralyzed
from the mid-chest down. He was 20 years old. The
driver of the car was killed.
Source:
www.hockenberry.cjb.net
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