Sudden Death at the Wheel Due to a Disease Attack

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-144

  Tervo, Timo ^a   Räty, Esa ^b   Sulander, Pekka ^a   Holopainen, Juha M ^a   Jaakkola, Timo ^c   Parkkari, Kalle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b Finnish Motor Insurers Centre   (Finland)

^c Finnish National Traffic Police   (Finland)

Author keywords

death while driving; disease attack; speeding; statistics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; SUDDEN DEATH; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DEATH, SUDDEN; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECORDS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84873135003     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2012.695827     Document Type: Article

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