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- The challenge of defining and detecting fatigue complicates its incorporation into traffic and criminal law, especially in Finland, where laws on fatigued driving are vague.
- Comments from Finnish traffic and local police officers highlight personal experiences of driving while fatigued, revealing a common issue.
- Many shift workers, including police officers, often violate these laws, particularly when driving home after night shifts.
Article Abstract
Given the well-known difficulties in defining and detecting fatigue, it is a real challenge to incorporate it into either traffic or criminal law. Finnish traffic law forbids fatigued driving "only" on a general level concerning the driver's fitness to drive. We present several comments from Finnish traffic and local police officers regarding their own experiences of driving while fatigued. The comments were extracted from a larger survey of traffic (N=129) and local (N=100) police officers, and prosecutors (N=96). Although the main topic of the survey was the application of the law that forbids fatigued driving, some police officers raised the issue of their own behavior in this respect. We argue that many shift workers, including police officers, break the law, especially when driving home after a night shift.
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