Increase in traffic injury crashes following the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake in Japan: A model comparison

Ryotaro Tominaga1, Takuya Maruyama2

  • 1Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Japan.

Traffic Injury Prevention
|January 23, 2023
PubMed
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