Groups stress more sleep before getting behind the wheel

November 27, 2008 By Ted Gregory

The National Sleep Foundation, Students Against Destructive Decisions and insurance giant Liberty Mutual have an early holiday greeting they'd like to pass along: Get more sleep before heading over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house.

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