Reducing teen fatalities: Do graduated licensing programs help solve the problem?

Accidents: Causes, Analysis and Prevention

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-24

  Prato, Carlo Giacomo ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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