The impact of traffic violations on the estimated cost of traffic accidents with victims

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 709-717

  Ayuso, Mercedes ^a   Guillén, Montserrat ^a   Alcañiz, Manuela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accident cost; Accident severity; Penalty; Point record mechanism

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT COSTS; ACCIDENT SEVERITY; AVERAGE COST; AVERAGE NUMBERS; ESTIMATED COSTS; FATAL ACCIDENTS; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS; PENALTY; PENALTY POINTS; PRESENCE/ABSENCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS; TRAFFIC VIOLATION;

COSTS; CRIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; LICENSING; MORTALITY; OFFENDER; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COST OF ILLNESS; CRIMINALS; DANGEROUS BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LICENSURE; LOGISTIC MODELS;

EID: 76049121396     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.10.020     Document Type: Article

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