A national evaluation of the nighttime and passenger restriction components of graduated driver licensing
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A national evaluation of the nighttime and passenger restriction components of graduated driver licensing.
INTRODUCTION The high crash rate of youthful novice drivers has been recognized for half a century. Over the last decade, graduated driver licensing (GDL) systems, which extend the period of supervised driving and limit the novice's exposure to higher-risk conditions (such as nighttime driving), have effectively reduced crash involvements of novice drivers. METHOD This study used data from th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Safety Research
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-4375
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsr.2011.06.001