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Sleep, but not at the wheel

Greek national driver-fatigue communication campaign of 2008-2009, evaluated with before, during and after surveys.

Years
2008–2009
Country
Greece
Topic
SleepTraffic safety
Asks people to
Substitute
Strategy
Simple instruction
Channel
PrintRadioTV
Audience
General public
General public

Evidence

ObservationalPositive

Mean reach 13%; leaflets the most effective channel; significant rises in awareness of fatigue causes and effects and in self-reported stopping for 15-minute rests (no control group).

Sponsor (who paid)

  • Not confirmed (Greek national road-safety authorities) Foreign government

Credits (who made it)

Not recorded yet.

Sources

  1. Do Road Safety Communication Campaigns Work? How to Assess the Impact of a National Fatigue Campaign on Driving Behavior evaluation · 2013 · DOI 10.3141/2364-08

Research notes

Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Campaign name and years from a later review quoted in search results; sponsor not confirmed. DOI seen in search-result URL only.

Record cases/gr-sleep-but-not-at-the-wheel.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign