A review of risk factors and patterns of motorcycle injuries

Accident Analysis & Prevention - Tập 41 Số 4 - Trang 710-722 - 2009
Mau‐Roung Lin1, Jess F. Kraus2
1Institute of Injury Prevention and Control, Taipei Medical University, 250 Wu-Hsing Street, Taipei 110, Taiwan, ROC
2The Southern California Injury Prevention Research Center, Department of Epidemiology, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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