Development and Validation of a Crash Culpability Scoring Tool

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 219-229

  Brubacher, Jeff ^a,b   Chan, Herbert ^a   Asbridge, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Culpability analysis; Index; Motor vehicle crash; Responsibility analysis; Scale; Scoring tool

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CANADA; COLD; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEGAL ASPECT; LEGAL LIABILITY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CANADA; COLD TEMPERATURE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POLICE; RECORDS AS TOPIC; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861596454     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2011.645383     Document Type: Article

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