How do children learn to cross the street? The process of pedestrian safety training

Traffic Injury Prevention

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 573-579

  Schwebel, David C ^a   Shen, Jiabin ^a   McClure, Leslie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

children; injury; learning; pedestrian; safety; training

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURIES; LEARNING; MALE; PEDESTRIAN; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; PEDESTRIANS; SAFETY; WALKING; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84975497081     PISSN: 15389588     EISSN: 1538957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15389588.2015.1125478     Document Type: Article

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