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Drivers may have been wrongfully convicted in at least 50 accident cases, writes TV 2. A report shows that an employee of the Norwegian Public Highway Administration has tampered with speed data in at least 50 of the cases.
– It is very unfortunate for those who may have been affected, says Bodil Rønning Dreyer, director of the roads and vehicles division of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, on TV 2.
The auditing company PwC has investigated the use of IT tools by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (SVV) in relation to traffic accidents. In such cases, SVV accident investigators help the police extract key data from the crashed vehicles to find the cause of the traffic accidents.
In December, the Attorney General sounded the alarm after Kripos discovered that there could be database errors in the accident reports that had been sent from SVV to the police.
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– In 50 of the 176 cases in which shocks and / or diagnostic tools have been used, clear evidence has been found that the results have been manipulated. In these cases, the results carry weight in the report to the police, the report says.
An employee of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration was arrested in April and charged with tampering with traffic data. The employee’s defense attorney, Harald Jahren, says they are unfamiliar with the contents of the report and that they relate to the five or six cases on which the allegation is based. It says that the client denies having manipulated documents.
– He acknowledges that there may be errors in the documents, but in that case they are unconscious actions and he is not sure if it is he who could have made these mistakes, Jahren tells TV 2.
According to Dreyer of the Norwegian Public Roads Administration, 50 of the 93 reports can be linked to an employee. The remaining 43 reports are not possible to document how they went wrong.
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