{
  "id": "2002-mayjune-databases-highlight-tired-truckers",
  "slug": "2002-mayjune-databases-highlight-tired-truckers",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2002-mayjune-databases-highlight-tired-truckers.html",
  "year": 2002,
  "month": "May/June",
  "monthNum": 5,
  "headline": "Databases highlight tired truckers",
  "kicker": "TRANSPORTATION",
  "author_name": "Greg Reeves",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "The Kansas City Star",
  "summary": "Reporters at The Kansas City Star utilized multiple databases to investigate and report on the fatal consequences of long-haul truck driver fatigue.",
  "keywords": [
    "trucking",
    "fatigue",
    "transportation"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Data & Databases",
    "Public Safety"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Investigating fatigue among over-the-road truckers last year was frustrating work: we had to analyze not one, but several databases, all of them missing crashes and key pieces of information. But when we were done, special projects reporter Judy Thomas and I were able to piece together enough solid information to show the fatal consequences of truckers driving tired. In \"Dead Tired,\" a three-day series that ran in The Kansas City Star starting Dec. 16, we reported that the long hours truckers log on the road contributed to hundreds of deaths every year.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "pre-v2",
    "extracted_at": "",
    "verified": true
  },
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