Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Bull. World Health Organ. · Jun 2011
Effect on road traffic injuries of criminalizing road traffic offences: a time-series study.
To determine the effect of criminalizing some traffic behaviours, after the reform of the Spanish penal code in 2007, on the number of drivers involved in injury collisions and of people injured in traffic collisions in Spain. ⋯ The findings suggest that criminalizing certain traffic behaviours can improve road safety by reducing both the number of drivers involved in injury collisions and the number of people injured in such collisions.