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Drugs, alcohol and co in traffic fatalities

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Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1976
Weight: 89 KB
Volume: 8
Category: Article
ISSN: 0300-9432
DOI: 10.1016/0300-9432(76)90087-x

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