Effects of Increasing Child Restraint Use in Reducing Occupant Injuries Among Children Aged 0–5 Years in Japan

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 55-61

  Nakahara, Shinji ^a   Ichikawa, Masao ^b   Nakajima, Yukari ^c  

^a KANAGAWA UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN SERVICES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

child restraint; Japan; legislation; occupant injury; trend analysis

Indexed keywords

CAR DRIVING; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEM; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; INFANT; JAPAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UTILIZATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; CHILD RESTRAINT SYSTEMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84907758756     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.897698     Document Type: Article

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