Road Safety from the Perspective of Driver Gender and Age as Related to the Injury Crash Frequency and Road Scenario

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 25-33

  Russo, Francesca ^a   Biancardo, Salvatore Antonio ^a   Dell'acqua, Gianluca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

countermeasures; driver behavior; head on collision; rear impact; side impact

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887920485     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2013.794943     Document Type: Article

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