Impact of the new road traffic safety law on the number of traffic casualties in Serbia

Scientific Research and Essays

Volumn 6, Issue 29, 2011, Pages 6176-6184

  Boris Antic T E ^a   Milan Vujanic T E ^a   Dragan Jovanovic T E ^b   Dalibor Pesic T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Effects; Number of casualties; Number of fatalities; Penalties; Traffic accidents; Traffic safety law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858240549     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19922248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5897/SRE11.1419     Document Type: Article

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