Daniel 的故事 · Daniel Platt, 联合创始人兼首席执行官

无人筛查的睡眠障碍。

Daniel 的父亲遇车祸身亡。肇事司机患有未经确诊的睡眠呼吸暂停，驾驶时睡着了。Daniel 此后打造的一切，都从这里开始。

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2004 年 10 月 7 日

早上 5:55 · 澳大利亚维多利亚州 Daniel 的父亲正开车去上班，行驶在那条无数个清晨都走过的路上。

对向驶来的这名司机并不知道自己患有睡眠呼吸暂停。他的生活中从来没有人问过这个问题，所以也就无从发现。这个缺口的代价十分沉重，波及了每一个当事人。

此后，Daniel 一再看到同样的模式：驾驶者通过了所有规定的检查，却没有一项检查问及睡眠。

对向驶来的司机

对向行驶的司机睡着了，驶入 Daniel 父亲的车道，造成高速迎面相撞。

未确诊的睡眠呼吸暂停
上完夜班正在回家
在限速 100 km/h、没有中央隔离带的道路上开车时睡着

Daniel 的父亲被空运送往医院，与死神搏斗。

仅仅一天多，这个家的世界就此破碎：Daniel 的父亲走了。

Daniel 一家失去了一位父亲、一位丈夫、一名员工和一名队友。如今，他本该也是 Daniel 孩子们的祖父。

这一切都因为一种从未被筛查出的睡眠障碍而失去。

这本来完全可以避免。

在工作中
在家中
在生活中

睡眠和疲劳不只是健康问题，也是严重的安全、法律和财务问题。

这并非个案

Daniel 一家并非个例。以下每个案例均由新加坡和澳大利亚的调查机构、法院或监管机构公布，而且都遵循同样的模式：有人睡着了，随后发生了事故。

案例以英文显示。

1996年8月 · South Australia, Australia
Interstate driver on 7.5 hours' sleep in five days has microsleeps and kills six; jailed and denied compensation
- 安全
- 法律
An interstate semi-trailer driver drove about 5,400 km in five days, sleeping only about seven and a half hours and using stimulant pills to stay awake. For about 90 km before the crash site his truck weaved onto the wrong side of the road until it collided with two cars, killing six people. The state coroner found his driving was substantially caused by extreme fatigue resulting in microsleeps; he was jailed for death by dangerous driving, and the Workers Compensation Tribunal later refused his own injury claim because he kept driving knowing he was falling asleep.
案例 AU-transport-25报告问题
2017年6月 · Victoria, Australia
Taxi driver with severe undiagnosed sleep apnoea hits aged-care minibus, three residents die; convictions quashed
- 安全
- 法律
A taxi driver carrying clients of a disability service drove through a rural give-way intersection without braking and struck a minibus taking nine aged-care residents home from a day trip; three of the elderly passengers died. Two hours later he was seen falling asleep and snoring in a busy hospital emergency department, and he was later diagnosed with very severe obstructive sleep apnoea (69 breathing stops an hour). He was convicted and jailed for six years, but the Court of Appeal quashed all the convictions because the jury could not exclude that his undiagnosed apnoea left him in microsleeps or diminished consciousness, so his driving may not have been conscious and voluntary.
案例 AU-transport-35报告问题
2016年5月 · New South Wales, Australia
Worker drives colleagues home after a marathon restaurant opening, has micro-sleeps and crashes: two killed
- 安全
- 法律
After two short nights and a 4am start, a young worker spent all day at the opening of a new city restaurant and then drove four colleagues home late at night. He had a micro-sleep, kept driving to look for a safe place to stop, fell asleep again and hit a power pole, killing two passengers and seriously injuring a third. The Court of Criminal Appeal held the sentencing judge was wrong to find he was not sleep deprived, and that full-time custody should have been imposed, but declined to interfere with the community sentence because it was well under way.
案例 AU-retail-02报告问题
2017年5月 · New South Wales, Australia
Logbook-compliant B-double driver keeps driving while dozing; head-on crash kills two boys
- 安全
- 法律
A B-double driver on a regular interstate run drifted into the oncoming lane repeatedly for more than half an hour in the early hours, correcting each time, before colliding with an oncoming car and killing two boys. His logbook was fully compliant with heavy vehicle work and rest limits and he had signed a fit-for-duty declaration, but he had worked almost 56 hours in five days and ignored his own warning signs and his employer's rule to stop if nodding off. Investigators found ten safe places he could have pulled over in the last 25 minutes. He was jailed for 3 years 6 months.
案例 AU-transport-34报告问题
2019年12月 · New South Wales, Australia
Apprentice electrician falls asleep driving to an early-morning start and kills two cyclists; convictions ultimately quashed
- 安全
- 法律
A first-year apprentice electrician left home at 4.40 am for his usual early start. Minutes later he fell asleep, his car drifted across the road and hit two cyclists on the opposite shoulder, killing both. It was never disputed that he fell asleep. The trial judge acquitted him of dangerous driving because he honestly and reasonably believed he was fit to drive, but convicted him of negligent driving; the Court of Criminal Appeal then quashed that conviction as inconsistent and entered an acquittal, nearly four years after the crash.
案例 AU-construction-05报告问题
2013年3月 · Singapore
Casino officer 24h+ without sleep dozes at wheel, hits worker lorry; jailed
- 安全
- 法律
- 财务
In 2013 a casino surveillance officer, driving after a 12-hour shift that ended the evening before and a night out, dozed off on an expressway and hit the back of a lorry carrying workers; one man died and others were injured. On the prosecution's appeal in 2014, the High Court found she had gone more than 24 hours without proper sleep, and replaced her fine with jail.
案例 SG-security-02报告问题
2021年12月 · Victoria, Australia
Truck driver with sleep apnoea and work diary breaches ploughs into stopped traffic, killing a toddler: 12.5 years' jail
- 安全
- 法律
- 财务
A 43-tonne prime mover driver who had sleep apnoea, at most six hours' sleep opportunity the night before, and a history of work diary and rest-break breaches wandered across lanes on a major freeway for half an hour, alarming other motorists who wondered if he was asleep. He then ran into the back of slowed traffic at roadworks, killing a two-year-old girl and seriously injuring her parents. The court found beyond reasonable doubt that he was fatigued, knew his driving was badly impaired and chose to push on. He was jailed for 12 and a half years and also fined for the work diary and hours offences.
案例 AU-transport-42报告问题
2016年8月 · South Australia, Australia
Paramedic with undiagnosed sleep apnoea falls asleep; patient dies in ambulance rollover
- 安全
- 法律
During an overnight patient transfer, an ambulance left the road at about 2:50 am, hit a tree and rolled; the patient died and two others were seriously injured. The paramedic driving told police he fell asleep, and was later diagnosed with severe obstructive sleep apnoea that an expert said was probably present at the time. The District Court of South Australia acquitted him of dangerous driving charges because it could not exclude that he fell asleep without warning due to the undiagnosed condition.
案例 AU-emergency-01报告问题
2023年5月 · Singapore
Minibus driver who fell asleep from lack of rest kills pedestrian on zebra crossing
- 安全
- 法律
A minibus driver carrying young children briefly fell asleep at the wheel around midday because of a lack of rest, failed to see a pedestrian on a zebra crossing and struck her; she died six days later. The driver, then in his late 60s, pleaded guilty to driving without due care and attention causing death. The judge named his fatigue, and the risk it posed to others, as an aggravating factor and imposed jail and an eight-year driving ban.
案例 SG-transport-02报告问题
2021年6月 · Singapore
Bus captain on 4 hours' sleep closes eyes for 3 seconds and crashes; jailed 12 weeks
- 安全
- 法律
A public bus captain who had slept only about four hours before starting a 5:30am shift dozed off at the wheel mid-afternoon, closing his eyes for about three seconds before the bus crashed into a bus stop bollard. Three of the ten passengers were injured, including fractures. The prosecution told the court the crash was caused by his lack of sleep; he was jailed for 12 weeks and banned from driving for five years. The operator said its roster gave at least nine hours' rest between shifts, a reminder that a compliant roster does not guarantee that sleep was actually obtained.
案例 SG-transport-01报告问题