The relationship between impaired driving crashes and beliefs about impaired driving: Do residents in high crash rate counties have greater concerns about impaired driving?

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 127-133

  Beck Dr , Kenneth H ^a   Yan, Alice F ^a   Min, Qi Wang ^a   Kerns, Timothy J ^b   Burch, Cynthia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash rates; Enforcement; Impaired driving; Public concern

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAR DRIVING; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; ATTITUDE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MALE; MARYLAND; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 67650708887     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580802594960     Document Type: Article

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