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Traffic Injury Prevention Volume 12, 2011 - Issue 1
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Factors Influencing Injury Severity to Highway Workers in Work Zone Intrusion Accidents

Jessica M. Wong Biomedical Engineering Department, University of California, Davis, California
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Mary Catherine Arico Civil, Environmental, and Biomedical Engineering Department, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
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Bahram Ravani Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Davis, California
Pages 31-38 | Received 10 Sep 2010, Accepted 17 Sep 2010, Published online: 22 Jan 2011

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