Mobile telephone use among Melbourne drivers: a preventable exposure to injury risk

• 1 Injury Research Centre, School of Population Health, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009
• 2 Injury Prevention and Trauma Care Division, Institute for International Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW.

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