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Several weeks there were postings by several parkies about their overwhelming need to sleep and found themselves falling asleep while driving. I am sad to report that a member of our support group, who was also having the same problem with sleepiness while driving, was killed in an auto accident when his car left the road and hit a culvert. The exact cause of the accident at this time is unknown but you have to wonder if he wasn't asleep at the time when the car left the road. I talked with another member of our group who also mentioned that at one time he had the same problem.....but with the passage of time this problem no longer bothers him. Another member of our group, David Robertson, also at one time was plagued with sleepy driving. He blames parlodel for the sleepiness which went away when he stopped taking that medicine. David is still in the process of getting his home computer hitched up so he can join the parkinsn network again. In the meantime he said I can post this message from him:1. If you're sleepy pull off the road (way off) and SLEEP. 2. If you can't get off the road and sleep David found that if he crossed his hands on the steering wheel there was a less tendency to fall asleep and the car would steer straight ahead rather than drifting to one side and off the road. (In other words, he drove cross handed.) Please, everyone, be careful. Margaret Mates