Traffic Crashes
By Leonard Evans
Measures to make traffic safer are most effective when they weigh the relative importance of factors such as automotive engineering and driver behavior
This Article From Issue
May-June 2002
Volume 90, Number 3
Page 244
DOI: 10.1511/2002.9.244
More than a million people are killed on the world's roads each year, the victims overwhelmingly young. In the United States more people die in a typical month in traffic crashes than died in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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