Wireless telephones and the risk of road crashes

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 649-660

  Laberge Nadeau, Claire ^a   Maag, Urs ^a   Bellavance, François ^a,b   Lapierre, Sophie D ^a,c   Desjardins, Denise ^a   Messier, Stéphane ^a   Saïdi, Abdelnasser ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Ecl des Hautes Etud Comml ^*  (Canada)

^c ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cellular mobile phone; Driving; Injury crash risk; Relative risk; Wireless telephone

Indexed keywords

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELEPHONE SETS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ROAD CRASHES;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 0041828853     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-4575(02)00043-X     Document Type: Article

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