Burden and factors associated with highway work-zone crashes, on a section of the Karachi-Hala Road, Pakistan

Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 79-83

  Bhatti, Junaid Ahmad ^a   Razzak, Junaid Abdul ^b   Lagarde, Emmanuel ^a   Salmi, L Rachid ^a,c,d  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^d BORDEAUX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

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EID: 79953292504     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2010.027532     Document Type: Article

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