Effect on road traffic injuries of criminalizing road traffic offences: a time-series study

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of criminalizing some traffic behaviours, after the reform of the Spanish penal code in 2007, on the number of drivers involved in injury collisions and of people injured in traffic collisions in Spain. METHODS: This study followed an interrupted times-series desig...

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Main Authors: Ana M Novoa, Katherine Pérez, Elena Santamariña-Rubio, Carme Borrell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The World Health Organization 2011-06-01
Series:Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Online Access:http://www.scielosp.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0042-96862011000600009&lng=en&tlng=en