Insufficient Sleep Can Be Deadly
It was about 2 a.m. on Christmas Eve when Jakob Murphy fell asleep at the wheel of his SUV, crashed into a telephone pole, and was killed instantly. He was 24 years old. Murphy was a strapping, redheaded college football player at Mount St. Joseph University in Cincinnati. “Jake” worked at a local tavern during the offseason and was a hard worker. He was on his way home to his family — just three miles away – on the night of his tragic accident....