Effects of high-profile collisions on drink-driving penalties and alcohol-related crashes in Japan

Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 182-188

  Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Ichikawa, Masao ^b  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MASS MEDIUM; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLIC INTOXICATION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATIONS MEDIA; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; INFANT; JAPAN; MALE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79958287788     PISSN: 13538047     EISSN: 14755785     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ip.2010.027680     Document Type: Article

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