Lowering Blood Alcohol Content Levels to Save Lives: The European Experience
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Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 27, No. 1, 20–39 (2008) © 2008 by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI: 10.1002/pam.20305 1 COM (97) 131. Promotion of road safety in the European Union 1997–2001. 2 The direct economic cost of world road crashes has been estimated by Peden et al. (2004) at US$518 billion a year. Abstract
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