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Original Articles

Reducing young driver crash casualties in Great Britain – Use of routine police crash data to estimate the potential benefits of graduated driver licensing

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Pages 321-330 | Received 11 Apr 2012, Accepted 30 Aug 2012, Published online: 26 Sep 2012

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