Underreporting of Road Crashes in Pakistan and the Role of Fate

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 34-39

  Kayani, Ahsan ^a   Fleiter, Judy J ^a   King, Mark J ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

crash data; fatalism; Islam; Pakistan; road crash reporting; road safety

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889251904     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2013.793797     Document Type: Article

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