ROAD ACCIDENT PATTERNS AND THE MEASURES THEY SUGGEST FOR INCREASING ROAD SAFETY. SUMMARY OF RESULTS

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

• Supplemental Notes:
  • 13 Pp, 1 TaB
• Corporate Authors:

  London University, England

  Senate House
  London WC1,   England 
• Authors:
  • Hakkert, A S
• Publication Date: 1969-10

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Drivers; Fatalities; Highway safety; Measurement; Pedestrian safety; Pedestrian vehicle crashes; Statistics; Traffic crashes; Urban areas
• Uncontrolled Terms: Patterns
• Old TRIS Terms: Pedestrian protection
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00220964
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Nat Safety Council Safety Res Info Serv
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 21 1970 12:00AM