Risk factors for a farm vehicle public road crash

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 42-47

  Costello, Theresa M ^a   Schulman, Michael D ^a   Mitchell, Roger E ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Crash risk; Crashes; Farm vehicles; Farmers; Haddon matrix; Injury; Public roads

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; AGRICULTURE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPERATING ROOMS; ROADS AND STREETS; VEHICLES;

CRASH RISK; CRASHES; FARM VEHICLES; FARMERS; HADDON MATRIX; INJURY; PUBLIC ROADS;

FARMS;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGRICULTURE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; ODDS RATIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849108001     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2008.08.029     Document Type: Article

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