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Accidents on streets, roads, and highways involving drivers, passengers, pedestrians, or vehicles. Traffic accidents refer to AUTOMOBILES (passenger cars, buses, and trucks), BICYCLING, and MOTORCYCLES but not OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES; RAILROADS nor snowmobiles.
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- Accidents, Traffic
- Accident, Traffic
- Traffic Accident
- Traffic Collisions
- Traffic Crashes
- Collision, Traffic
- Collisions, Traffic
- Crashes, Traffic
- Traffic Collision
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, mortality, prevention & control, psychology, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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implies automobile accidents so do not coordinate with AUTOMOBILES unless the auto is especially discussed; coordinate with BICYCLING or MOTORCYCLES if pertinent; not for railroad accidents ( = RAILROADS + ACCIDENTS) or all-terrain vehicles, motorbikes or snowmobiles ( = OFF-ROAD MOTOR VEHICLES + ACCIDENTS)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Traffic Accidents. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000063. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000063
- Traffic Accidents. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision
- Traffic Accidents. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9687