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Road injuries and relaxed licensing requirements for driving light motorcycles in Spain: a time-series analysis
- Source :
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol 87, Iss 7, Pp 497-504 (2009)
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- The World Health Organization, 2009.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To assess differences between the risk of injury for motorcycle riders before and after the passing of a law allowing licenced car drivers to drive light motorcycles without having to take a special motorcycle driving test. METHODS: We carried out a quasi-experimental study involving comparison groups, and a time-series analysis from 1 January 2002 to 30 April 2008. The study group was composed of people injured while driving or riding a light motorcycle (engine capacity 51-125 cubic centimetres), while the comparison groups consisted of riders of heavy motorcycles (engine capacity > 125 cc), mopeds (engine capacity
- Subjects :
- Public aspects of medicine
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00429686
- Volume :
- 87
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.4ee15d6f693c4904a3a6add3365e2969
- Document Type :
- article