Vicky was driving asleep last night...

I have just gotten news of Vicky's latest screw up today at noon.

Last night she had the entire gang of friends from school at the movies... and got back home in her car. It was late at night... the movie ended at midnight and she was already very sleepy. But she didn't think that was something too bad for her to get home, after all its nearby.

By the time she was driving down the road... well she was attempting to drive at a stage where she had to make a VERY conscious effort just to keep her eyes open and even falling asleep for several seconds at a time.

After a while she got into the expressway just as always... a minute later she woke up from her sleep (apparently she was by now having short dreams ) by the incoming headlights of a car. When she got to evade the car skidding in the expressway, she realized something: at the entrance of the highway... she had gotten herself on the left side of the highway.

That's when she pulled over on the side of the highway, and almost got around to just get on the right side of the highway and keep driving... but she now was scared to say the least of driving when you are as K.O. as she was, so she called her mom to pick her up.

I honestly don't know who is crazy enough to drive when you can't even keep your eyes open... but you have no idea how scared I got when she told me that. She says she won't do it again... just that she thought she could be awake for enough time and that her home was just 15-20 minutes away, why bother to call mom to pick her up.

And when she calls me from her cell telling me the tale, I am sitting there saying "Vicky, my dear, didn't you ever think that it was a tad dangerous to drive while sleepy"? She had not.

I honestly don't know wether to feel upset or to laugh.

Yikes! She is very lucky no one got hurt!

OMG!!!

If I were her mum I'd take her keys!! She's a worse driver than i was when I first got my liscence.. and I did some stupid things!

Good grief, she's lucky no-one was KILLED let alone hurt!! She really needs to wake-up (sorry, but I coudln't think of anything else there) to the real dangers of driving when sleepy - every time you get in a car, you are basically at the hands of a killing-machine - surely she should have thought before she got in it?! That girl needs her license confiscated!

I'm the first to admit that I've done this.

I work very early hours and have an hour and 1/4 commute and sometimes I'm just not fully awake. I've nodded off at the wheel and have had dreams while driving.

It's terribly stupid and very scary, but I won't lie, I still drive while tired.

Karen

i never fell asleep at the wheel but i know that a lot of people do. most wake up before causing damage but some people aren't so lucky. I think that is almost worse than drunk driving and she should have her car priviledges suspended for a while.. although she did eventually call her mom which is very responsible.

Originally Posted by annabelle33

i never fell asleep at the wheel but i know that a lot of people do. most wake up before causing damage but some people aren't so lucky. I think that is almost worse than drunk driving and she should have her car priviledges suspended for a while.. although she did eventually call her mom which is very responsible.

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Worse than drunk driving????

It's bad, but I'm not sure I agree with that.

Vicky is a horrible driver, and it doesn't look like she is improving with time.
Looks like it only a matter of time before she will hurt someone else or herself.

My Mum works night shift and one morning she was taking me to school and she fell asleep at the wheel, luckily I was there to wake her up. We were very lucky we didn't get hurt because it was on a main road.

Vicky has improved in her driving a lot. Last time I talked of her driving, when I talked of how she wasn't even yielding to semis and that type of stuff her license was brand new, hot of the press. She hasn't done anything stupid in a while lately, except for this. And since then she's now pretty much responsible, because she has learned to drive since then. Usually, she is in more danger of violating the peace due to the volume she puts rock music in her car every now and then, than from violating the speed limit. So this is a first time in many months ocassion.

Her mom is both angry and glad with her and won't do anything of taking the keys, it was extremely responsible for her to have pulled over and that type of stuff, the minute she realized she wasn't in a condition to drive at that moment. Had she kept driving she would definitely have done that, she says. Perhaps she also feels confident of the fact that she hadn't done anything stupid in many months. What Vicky says was that if she had known that her tiredness would translate into falling asleep once she was sitting in a confy car seat she would have called her mom before even opening the car door. I think finding herself in a busy highway in the wrong lane was the wake up call she needed of sleepy driving. But I can't help it feel like "OMG... "

That's a mistake anyone can make. The daughter of the woman I'm named after made that mistake when she was in her 60s, fortunately both she and her husband survived the accident.

I must admit although im doing my license i find it very hard to stay awake in the car when i know its driving for more than an hour.
My boyfriend was driving us to scotland from frankfurt.
Its about a day drive. Although we raced through at 200 km an hr EVEN THROUGH ENGLAND! we got flashed so many times but they cant catch it when its going too fast haha. As we were getting close to glasgow. my boyfriend opens the door and lets the cold air in i wake up in a fright and say what are you doing. He said to me i had to wake up to keep talking to him because he kept on falling asleep.
He made it untill we arrived there.
As soon as we arrived in Paisley we were fully awake but as soon as we got into my grandmas house we collapsed to sleep.
WE didnt stop at all to get sleep, but it was an emergency since she was having lung cancer she only had a matter of days to go. But im still very lucky that i got to see her for the last time and there were no accidents!!