Older drivers do not have a high crash risk - A replication of low mileage bias

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 574-578

  Langford, Jim ^a   Methorst, Rob ^b   Hakamies Blomqvist, Liisa ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ministry of Transport Public Works and Water Management Netherlands   (Netherlands)

^c Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Crash risk; Low mileage bias; Older drivers

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

CRASH RISKS; LOW MILEAGE BIAS; OLDER DRIVERS;

RISK PERCEPTION;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SAFETY; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAVEL;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAFETY; TRAVEL;

EID: 33644909058     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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