Children in fatal crashes: Driver blood alcohol concentration and demographics of child passengers and their drivers

Addiction

Volumn 97, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1439-1448

  Voas, Robert B ^a   Fisher, Deborah A ^a   Tippetts, A Scott ^a  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Child restraint; Drinking and driving; Ethnocultural; Passenger deaths; Race ethnicity

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRIVER; DRUNKEN DRIVING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEATBELT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNEMPLOYMENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEAT BELTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036847521     PISSN: 09652140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.t01-2-00267.x     Document Type: Article

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