Traffic and Highway Engineering
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ISBN: 9781305156241
Author: Garber, Nicholas J.
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 5, Problem 12P
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The potential causes of crashes on unsafe locations and the information collected for actual causes.
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