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BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP - Myrna Buiser took a break from driving, pausing at a truck stop near the New Jersey Turnpike. It was a long way from where she had started in Massachusetts, and even farther from her home in Denver. 'I drive tired probably quite often,' Buiser said, explaining that her job as a nursing consultant required exhaustive road trips. 'If I'm traveling across country a lot and through time zones, I'm always quite sleepy.' Studies estimate that half of motorists feel drowsy behind the wheel, and about two in 10 drivers said they had fallen asleep while driving in the last year. Highway-safety advocates are hoping a New Jersey law will deter drowsy drivers from hitting the roads. The law, signed last month and known as Maggie's Law, makes driving while tired a crime in fatal crashes much as is driving while drunk or high...
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