On the fatal crash experience of older drivers

Annual Proceedings - Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 371-391

  Kent, Richard ^a   Henary, Basem ^a   Matsuoka, Fumio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEST INJURY; HEAD INJURY;

ACCIDENTS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 32444448721     PISSN: 15400360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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