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Development of a method to rate the primary safety of vehicles using linked New Zealand crash and vehicle licensing data

Michael D. KeallWellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Otago University, Wellington South, New ZealandCorrespondence[email protected]
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Stuart NewsteadMonash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Pages 151-158 | Received 15 Dec 2014, Accepted 21 Apr 2015, Published online: 26 Jan 2016

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