A traffic accident occurred at an exit on the Heidelberg-Dossenheim freeway in Germany, and surprisingly, the owner, Becker, was able to escape from 30 years of exhaustion. 50-year-old Becker, a former professional soldier, had been sleepy during the day since he was young, and this time when he woke up from his sleep, he found that his car had crashed into the highway road safety barrier. The safety guardrail on the side of the highway. The car was destroyed, “but it was a relief for me,” Becker said. On the advice of his doctor, the traffic kilometer management agreed to have him examined at a sleep center, which confirmed that the culprit of the accident was a sleep disorder caused by snoring and sleep apnea. Not only did he receive a lighter penalty, but the daytime sleepiness that had plagued him for more than 30 years was also completely cured. It is no coincidence that the author recently received two consecutive calls for help from Chinese Canadians, both of whom sought the help of sleep medicine experts because they were unconsciously asleep at night while driving and had traffic accidents. It turned out that both of them were suffering from typical episodic sleep disorder, which affected their work and study due to drowsiness in China, and even had traffic accidents, but only after they moved abroad and found the cause of the accidents with the help of advanced medical science and technology. In the prohibition of alcohol has achieved remarkable results today, for most drivers, drowsiness than drinking alcohol may be more dangerous, Australian scientists have shown that for people driving, 17 hours without sleep is equivalent to the blood contains 0.5‰ of alcohol. Unfortunately, this point has not yet attracted the attention of the general public and traffic management departments. In fact, accidents caused by drowsiness are not uncommon, such as the shocking Chernobyl nuclear leak in the former Soviet Union and the U.S. Challenger space shuttle explosion are related to staff sleepiness and mishandling. Traffic accidents caused by drowsiness have been given much attention because they involve the safety and well-being of millions of families. A number of studies have found that the incidence of traffic accidents among motorists with sleep apnea is two to seven times higher than normal, and half of all fatal traffic accidents are related to motorists dozing off. After treatment, the incidence of these drivers’ accidents was significantly reduced. The reason is not difficult to understand, driving requires drivers to focus and react quickly. The narcoleptic patients repeatedly doze off, so when driving attention is not focused, poor judgment, reaction and response ability is reduced, alertness is not high, memory loss, control is reduced, prone to traffic accidents. Like eating and drinking, sleep is also an indispensable physiological need of the human body, while daytime sleepiness is also like hunger and thirst, suggesting sleep deprivation or the existence of some kind of sleep disorder disorder. The former is most common in those who work too long hours and sleep too short. For example, some drivers drive around the clock in pursuit of profits, some play poker, mahjong, dance all night long, regardless of mental fatigue fatigue driving, encounter emergency, do not know what to do, resulting in accidents after the regret. The latter is most common with snoring, such patients have frequent sleep apnea during sleep, deep sleep basically disappears, and the quality of sleep is extremely poor. Another rare disease that causes drowsiness is the aforementioned episodic sleeping sickness, in addition to the uncontrollable sleepiness, the patient will be weak in an emergency, the more anxious the more energy, the clearer the mind but difficult to self-control, as the so-called “heart has more than enough power”. In addition, the body’s need for sleep is also affected by biological rhythms, the afternoon and midnight are the most likely to produce sleepiness. Interestingly, a foreign clinical research institute investigated 6,000 vehicle collisions and found that the peak time of vehicle collisions was also distributed between midnight and early morning and between one and four o’clock in the afternoon. And these two time periods and normal people want to doze off time is almost the same. Because of this, Europe and the United States pay special attention to the impact of drowsiness on traffic accidents, for example, some states in the United States in the form of a law that prohibits driving before treatment for severe sleep apnea, while in Ontario, Canada, if seriously ill patients do not go to treatment and drive, doctors have the right to report to the traffic management. To encourage their treatment, the government also reimburses all treatment costs. In Japan’s Aichi Prefecture, a car accident occurred in September 2002, in which a moving express train collided with a car at an intersection, derailing the 1st and 2nd cars and hospitalizing the train driver and passengers, 23 in total, and killing the car driver. The investigation found that the accident was related to the train driver suffering from severe sleep apnea and drowsiness, for which Japan has launched a national sleep health education fever, and the state has specifically allocated funds to support sleep and traffic accident research. According to reports, the German BMW car manufacturing company is testing an automatic alarm device, the device can reduce the risk of drivers “into dreamland” while driving. This alarm system is designed to detect the driver’s eyelid activity through a camera, and the data will be aggregated to determine the driver’s degree of wakefulness in driving, followed by an appropriate alarm signal. However, no decision has been made on the date when such a device will be introduced to the market as standard equipment. According to statistics, the number of road traffic accident fatalities in China reached 94,000 in 2004, ranking first in the world. Among them, the driver factor caused 89.8% of the total number of traffic accidents, resulting in 87.4% of the total number of deaths and 90.6% of the total number of injuries, respectively. However, the negative effects of drowsiness have not been taken into account by the authorities in terms of measures taken to reduce the incidence of accidents. Awareness of the importance of this issue will not only help to reduce the accident rate, but will also reflect humanistic care in assessing the treatment of drivers involved in accidents. Considering the rapid increase in the number of family cars in China, it is important to raise awareness of the dangers of drowsy driving and pay as much attention to drowsy driving as to drunk driving. When applying for a driver’s license and annual inspection, applicants should be asked about their sleep snoring, and a survey should be conducted on our drivers suffering from sleep apnea, and those who are diagnosed should be treated appropriately and allowed to continue driving only after their symptoms are controlled. Conduct the necessary medical evaluations in assessing the treatment of accident drivers.