Are we there yet? Australian road safety targets and road traffic crash fatalities

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Gargett, Susan ^a   Connelly, Luke B ^a,b   Nghiem, Son ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMAN; MORTALITY; MOTIVATION; SAFETY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUSTRALIA; GOALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SAFETY;

EID: 79955399981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-270     Document Type: Article

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