Back-over collisions in child pedestrians from the canadian hospitals injury reporting and prevention program

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 350-353

  Nhan, Cindy ^a   Rothman, Linda ^b   Slater, Morgan ^c   Howard, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Back over; Child pedestrian; CHIRPP; Motor vehicle collision

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; CANADA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 70349252345     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389580902995166     Document Type: Article

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