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Man guilty of sleep crash death
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7259669.stm
A lorry driver who fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a car has been jailed after admitting causing death by dangerous driving.
Hayden Bailey's 18-tonne lorry hit a crash barrier on the A48 Eastern Avenue in Cardiff then crossed the central reservation to the other carriageway.
It hit a car driven by Leonard Nicholls, 69, from Cardiff, who died in the collision last April.
Bailey, 54, of Birchgrove Close, Newport, was jailed for 10 months.
He was also banned from driving for three years.
Cardiff Crown Court heard Bailey was returning from delivering bread in Chippenham when the incident occurred.
Mr Nicholls was driving his wife Evelyn, 68, to a garden centre. He suffered multiple injuries and died at the scene. Mrs Nicholls also suffered serious injuries.
Defending, Ian Dixie said Bailey was sincerely sorry for the pain caused to Mr Nicholl's family.
"The terrible irony is that his own father died from a road accident which has made him a very careful driver," he told the court.
Records showed Dailey had driven 151 miles that morning between 0325 GMT and 1000 GMT and had taken the appropriate rest breaks.
The court heard medical tests since the incident showed Bailey suffers from severe obstructive sleep apnoea, a breathing condition which interferes with deep sleep and causes excessive tiredness during the day.
Bailey was unaware of his condition, and also had a viral infection that may have contributed to him feeling sleepy, Mr Dixie said.
Sentencing, Judge Philip Richards said: "You caused the death of another human being, a man who was a thoroughly decent man. His life was cut short and you caused injuries to his widow.
"You are a thoroughly decent man, I am quite sure of that. The last thing you wanted to do was be responsible for any injury to any other person.
"You will have to go through the rest of your life knowing you have caused this accident and that in itself is a significant punishment."
Speaking after the case, the couple's daughter Chantelle Nicholls, 42, said: "People should always take a 15-minute break if they are driving and start to feel tired.
"We are grateful that Hayden Bailey has now taken responsibility for his actions.
"But people with sleep apnoea can be aware they are falling asleep. Whatever the cause, stop and have a break."
Sleeping at the wheel is no crime: Supreme Court
Richard Foot, Canwest News Service
Published: Saturday, February 23, 2008
Drivers who fall asleep behind the wheel or commit "momentary acts of negligence" should not be held criminally responsible for their mistakes -- even if there are devastating consequences, says the Supreme Court of Canada.
In a unanimous ruling on Friday, the nine justices of the country's highest court restored the acquittal of a British Columbia man charged with dangerous driving causing death, following a tragic accident in 2003.
Justin Beatty was driving his pickup truck on the Trans-Canada Highway near Chase, B.C., on a clear summer day when the truck briefly crossed the centre line of the road and collided with an oncoming car, killing three aboriginal women inside.
At the scene, a stunned Beatty told police and paramedics that he had either fallen asleep behind the wheel, or lost consciousness due to heatstroke, after working all day in the sun.
There was no evidence of intoxication, and witnesses driving behind Beatty said his truck had been driven normally, at the legal speed, before the crash.
Still, Beatty was charged with three counts of dangerous driving causing death, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison.
He was acquitted by his trial judge, who said Beatty's "few seconds of negligent driving" -- while making him liable for civil damages -- were not enough to be called a crime.
The B.C. Court of Appeal disagreed and ordered a new trial, saying the mere fact that Beatty's truck crossed the road, regardless of whether it was a momentary mistake, constituted dangerous driving.
Beatty appealed to the Supreme Court, which on Friday struck down the previous order and restored his acquittal.
Although the Supreme Court has ruled before on the question of dangerous driving, Beatty's case is important for drivers across the country because of what the court says about the fatal yet utterly momentary nature of his negligence.
"Even the most able and prudent driver will from time to time suffer from momentary lapses of attention," said Justice Louise Charron, writing for the court.
"Such automatic and reflexive conduct may even pose a danger to other users of the highway. Indeed, the facts in this case provide a graphic example."
Yet driving, said Charron, is "inherently risky . . . if every departure from the civil norm is to be criminalized, regardless of the degree, we risk casting the net too widely and branding as criminals persons who are in reality not morally blameworthy."
Cowpatty asks that I relay the message that she believes there will be zero AH T-trades today.
"In what Toyota called a world first, the new version offers a safety device that monitors the driver's eyes and sounds a warning signal if they are closed for longer than what it deems safe. This option costs more than $6,100."
$6,100 option. Wow!
Drowsy driving serious danger
http://www.redbluffdailynews.com/ci_8335403
Drowsy driving serious danger
More than 1,550 die annually
By KAREN McINTYRE - DN Staff Writer
Article Last Updated: 02/22/2008 09:40:46 AM PST
There is a danger, consequence and stigma about driving drunk that prevents many people from doing it, but most drivers don't feel guilty about getting behind the wheel while they are tired.
According to staff at Effective Control Transport, drowsy driving is just as dangerous as drunk driving.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that drowsy driving causes at least 100,000 police-reported crashes and kills more than 1,550 Americans each year.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that road accidents are the No. 1 killer in the workplace, mainly affecting truck drivers and traveling salespeople.
The National Sleep Foundation says fatigued driving is under-recognized and underreported.
Engineers at Effective Control Transport, a company registered in Delaware with a corporate office in Montreal, Canada, and a lab in Anaheim, designed a device that measures how tired drivers are in an effort to tackle the problem of drowsy driving.
Tackling drowsy driving
The Folo Cognitive Resource Availability Manager, or Folo CRAM, is an infrared camera that shines an invisible light on the driver's face, measuring facial patterns and alerting the driver of his or her level of fatigue, said Gib de Medeiros, vice president of marketing for Effective Control Transport and one of the engineers for the device.
Research for the Folo CRAM began three years ago, but the device is based on 10-year-old studies from inventor Bruno
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The camera sits on top of a black box which analyzes the images recorded, Medeiros said. The Folo CRAM measures components of the face and how they evolve over time, such as how quickly the driver's eyes close. Levels of fatigue are measured in real time and shown to the driver by a light that changes from green to yellow to red and ultimately to flashing red when the driver has reached a dangerous level of fatigue, Medeiros said. Based on the light, drivers will know when they need to pull over, take a walk or stop for a nap.
Medeiros said he hopes the Folo CRAM will become as natural and non-negotiable as a fuel gauge and that it will calculate how long someone can drive before stopping for rest. Drivers can feel refreshed after closing their eyes for just three minutes, he said.
Since truck drivers spend more hours on the road than the average person, the Folo CRAM can benefit them especially, Medeiros said. The device has been developed so fleet supervisors of trucking companies can monitor the level of fatigue of all their drivers at one main station. Supervisors could call their truck drivers and direct them to take a break or stop for sleep when drivers reach low levels of alertness.
Medeiros said a major problem is that drivers live by the "Superman complex" - they think they can control everything, like their level of alertness.
"But you cannot control a law that comes from physiology," he said.
Many people know they are too tired to drive safely, but they don't stop, Medeiros said.
"We have the signs, but we don't listen to them," he said.
The right decision is to pull over and sleep.
Trucker's opinion
Longtime truck driver Ray Higerman pulls over to take a walk at least once a day to stay refreshed, he said during breakfast at a truck stop in Corning while in route from Oregon City, Ore., to Rohnert Park to deliver truck parts.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics claims that fatigue is responsible for 30 to 40 percent of accidents involving commercial trucks in North America. But Higerman, a Duff's Trucks driver from Aloha, Ore., has been a trucker for more than 30 years and said a Folo CRAM would not benefit him.
Higerman said the device would be more beneficial for regular people who are not accustomed to driving long hours.
"The long hours don't bother me," he said.
Higerman said he is not allowed to drive longer than 11 hours without stopping for at least eight hours because of recently passed laws. He used to drive five hours on, five hours off.
"I get more sleep now than I ever had in some 30-odd years of driving," he said. "I get too much sleep."
The device would not benefit truck drivers because many new trucking companies that can afford the equipment already have satellite systems advanced enough to tell drivers when they need to sleep. Higerman said the Folo CRAM would "cost a lot of money for nothing."
Drowsy drivers in Tehama County
Trucks were involved in more than half of the 24 fatal crashes in Tehama County in 2006. And staff at Effective Control Transport think most of the incidents may have been caused by drowsy driving.
Exactly how many lives this new technology could save is impossible to determine because it is hard to know whether a collision was caused by fatigue based on physical evidence, said Selam Tewolde, vice president of public relations for Effective Control Transport.
Investigators often blame tired drivers when vehicles drift off the road, collisions do not occur in a junction, do not involve other vehicles or when there are no skid marks, indicating that the driver did not use the brakes, Tewolde said. According to the Federal Highway Administration, almost two-thirds of all U.S. highway fatalities are categorized as road departures. Road departures, as opposed to collisions that occur in intersections, can indicate tired drivers drifting out of their lanes.
Of the 24 fatal collisions in Tehama County in 2006, 21 were non-junction crashes, 17 were roadway departures and half were single-vehicle crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's most recent information. The categories indicating that fatigue played a role were much higher than accidents involving speeding or alcohol.
Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker said deputies are trained to look for drowsy drivers. The signs, driving too fast or too slow or weaving out of the lanes, are similar to drunk drivers.
Effective Control Transport has been going to markets and trade shows and talking with representatives from the transportation industry, insurance industry and others throughout the United States and other countries such as Canada and Australia. Tewolde said California is advanced in its approach to road safety issues compared to other states, and the company hopes to get the word out because drivers don't realize the dangers of driving drowsy.
For information about drowsy driving, visit www.drowsydriving
and we now have officers listed.
President - MANUEL DE LA SILVA
Secretary - MANUEL DE LA SILVA
Treasurer - DANIEL SAUVE
Director - YORK YEKUI TANG
Nice DD! I really think you pegged it!!! Whistler Water is from British Columbia and the poster in question claims to be from BC too.
Wow! useful information! thanks!
even quotemedia is showing a null ask and bid
interesting...... Zecco is showing zero on both bid and ask. That's unusual.
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Who had their TiVo running? I gotta see this CNBC clip!!!!!!
symbol change will be reported here first
http://www.otcbb.com/asp/dailylist_detail.asp?mkt_ctg=NON-OTCBB&d=02/05/2008
if not today, change the date in the URL
Warren Buffett.... "be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy only when others are fearful."
Geee Blue, do ya think there's a market for this here water?
And here's the interview!
yeah, the sign of a beast of a stock!!!!
No, with the O/S shares at roughly 225M here are the #'s
$46.8/225M = .208 EPS X 27.4 = $5.70 PPS
This is worth a repost.
Posted by: Charlatan
In reply to: Blue_Horse_Shoe who wrote msg# 8685 Date:11/30/2007 5:37:00 PM
Post #of 23425
PPS projections..
"AQUAGOLD" branded premium Canadian Spring Water is presently being shipped into China. In 2005, sales of bottled water in China experienced strong growth of 16% (liters) and 15% (RMB/$) to reach 11.2 billion liters and RMB24.1 billion or $3.17 Billion USD in volume and current value terms. The estimates on AQUAGOLD'S China contract alone exceed $500 Million in revenues, however how much in excess will follow in the near future resulting from ongoing marketing activities such as the upcoming trade show in Shanghai, China over the coming few weeks.
Industry statistics for the beverage market is 8.3% margins with an average P/E of 27.4 (Source Yahoo Finance). We can assume since the Company is selling water instead of soft drinks that the margins would be slightly higher so we will use 12%.
$500M/12% margins = $60,000,000 in revenue.
After taxes your looking at about $46,800,000 in profit.
$46.8/700M = .0668 EPS X 27.4 = $1.83 PPS
$46.8/1B = .0468 EPS X 27.4 = $1.28
So we can conclude that if the China contract generates revenues of $500M we are looking at $1.28 - $1.83 PPS projections.
"they must not be traders to hate Mondays"
LOL.... You got that right! I can't wait for Monday's!!!!
Here is the letter post from last night:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=26225822
And a previous post from 12/27/2007
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=25574698
and one from 12/19/2007
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=25411651
Here's a list of MM's:
http://otcbb.com/dynamic/tradingdata/download/mmids.txt
Market Maker speaks out:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=15625415
Other Good posts:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=21536450
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=21384915
Posted by: Charlatan
In reply to: Blue_Horse_Shoe who wrote msg# 8685 Date:11/30/2007 5:37:00 PM
Post #of 23425
PPS projections..
"AQUAGOLD" branded premium Canadian Spring Water is presently being shipped into China. In 2005, sales of bottled water in China experienced strong growth of 16% (liters) and 15% (RMB/$) to reach 11.2 billion liters and RMB24.1 billion or $3.17 Billion USD in volume and current value terms. The estimates on AQUAGOLD'S China contract alone exceed $500 Million in revenues, however how much in excess will follow in the near future resulting from ongoing marketing activities such as the upcoming trade show in Shanghai, China over the coming few weeks.
Industry statistics for the beverage market is 8.3% margins with an average P/E of 27.4 (Source Yahoo Finance). We can assume since the Company is selling water instead of soft drinks that the margins would be slightly higher so we will use 12%.
$500M/12% margins = $60,000,000 in revenue.
After taxes your looking at about $46,800,000 in profit.
$46.8/700M = .0668 EPS X 27.4 = $1.83 PPS
$46.8/1B = .0468 EPS X 27.4 = $1.28
So we can conclude that if the China contract generates revenues of $500M we are looking at $1.28 - $1.83 PPS projections.
still waiting on filings. Next news could come in the form of an interview by EricDavid claimed to be coming "early next week".
see this post: http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.asp?Message_id=26091813
Thanks! EricDavid rated PWDR as Aggressive Buy / Undervalued on Jan 6 at .17. I'm keeping my eye on this one.
http://www.ericdavid.com/newsletter/mailer/prvb010608.html
Blue, what's your take on PWDR?
duh, fixed. of course with the right kinda of news we could blow through those in a flash
RDB, how does the PWDR chart look to you these days?
ONMC resistance at 0.12 and .18 according to stockta
http://www.stockta.com/cgi-bin/analysis.pl?symb=ONMC&num1=2&cobrand=&mode=stock
SLAW might get real interesting real fast. check out the PR this afternoon
I would really like to see a PR to that effect.
spread the word about what?
My Grandma still uses the telephone book, if it's good enough for her it damn well should be good enough for Aquagold. LOL
I know, just being facetious. No skepticism here!
yeah and why when I look for Aquagold International in the yellow pages I come up empty? LOL
That picture was submitted by babooska quite a while ago.
CC companies are still pounding my door down with 0% credit offers
I might throw a few more on the pile but yeah, you're right. This is pure lotto for me at this point.
eh, I hope it drops to .05 so I can pick up some MORE lotto tickets. I'm in at .25 right now.
How about a MOSH chart, you know.... just for kicks. ;)