Predicting older drivers' accident involvement - Smeed's law revisited

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 675-680

  Hakamies Blomqvist, Liisa ^a   Wiklund, Mats ^a   Henriksson, Per ^a  

^a SWEDISH NATIONAL ROAD AND TRANSPORT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Accident; Driver; Elderly; Older; Risk

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DRIVER LICENSING; HEALTH HAZARDS; HEALTH RISKS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

COMMONSENSE LEVEL; ELDERLY; LICENSING RATE; OLDER;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 19944407985     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2005.03.009     Document Type: Article

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