Comparison of the Effects of Two Legal Blood Alcohol Limits: The Presence of Alcohol in Traffic Accidents According to Category of Driver in Izmir, Turkey

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 440-442

  Karakus, Akan ^a   İdiz, Nuri ^b   Dalgiç, Mustafa ^b   Uluçay, Tarik ^c   Sincar, Yasemin ^b  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b Ministry of Justice–Council of Forensic Medicine ^*  (Turkey)

^c CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

accidents; alcohol; traffic

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

BLOOD; CAR DRIVING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TURKEY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY;

EID: 84923584577     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2014.968777     Document Type: Article

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