Look who's talking! a roadside survey of drivers' cell phone use

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 555-560

  Young, Kristie L ^a   Rudin Brown, Christina M ^a   Lenné, Michael G ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cell phones; Driver characteristics; Driver distraction; Observational survey

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAR; CAR DRIVING; CLASSIFICATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; STATISTICS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; CELLULAR PHONE; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VICTORIA;

EID: 78649756468     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2010.499442     Document Type: Article

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