Exploring the declines in older driver fatal crash involvement

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 52nd Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn 52, Issue , 2008, Pages 255-264

  Cheung, Ivan ^a   McCartt, Anne T ^a   Braitman, Keli A ^a  

^a Insurance Institute for Highway Safety ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRASH INVOLVEMENTS; CRASH TYPES; FASTER RATES; FATAL CRASHES; INTERSECTION CRASHES; LICENSED DRIVERS; OLDER DRIVERS; UPWARD TRENDS; VEHICLE CRASHES;

CRASHWORTHINESS; MEDICINE; SENSORY PERCEPTION;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LICENSING; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LICENSURE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58849111828     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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