Traffic safety and the switch to a primary seat belt law: The California experience

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 743-751

  Houston, David J ^a   Richardson Jr, Lilliard E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention analysis; Seat belt laws; Traffic fatalities; Traffic injuries

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MORTALITY; SEATBELT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CALIFORNIA; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; SEAT BELTS;

EID: 0036826980     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(01)00074-4     Document Type: Article

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