Fatal traffic crashes involving drinking drivers: What have we learned?

Annals of Advances in Automotive Medicine - 53rd Annual Scientific Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 63-76

  Fell, James C ^a   Tippetts, A Scott ^a   Voas, Robert B ^a  

^a PACIFIC INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH AND EVALUATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILES; COMMERCIAL VEHICLES; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRIME; MEDICINE; TRUCKS;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL IGNITION INTERLOCKS; BLOOD-ALCOHOL CONCENTRATION; COMMERCIAL DRIVERS; IMPAIRED DRIVERS; IMPAIRED DRIVING; PERSONAL VEHICLES; SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTOR;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 72749112599     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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