Youthfulness, inexperience, and sleep loss: The problems young drivers face and those they pose for us

Injury Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages

  Groeger, John A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b School of Human Sciences   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AWARENESS; CAR DRIVING; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SAFETY; SLEEP; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; HUMANS; PERSONALITY; SAFETY; SLEEP;

EID: 33745856266     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2006.012070     Document Type: Review

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