Harsh criticism of the Public Roads Administration – HegnarOnline

– It was pretty special and surprising, says lawyer and former secretary Berit Reiss-Andersen said.

She is one of four members of the investigation team as Friday handed over a report on the secrecy of accident reports from the Public Roads Administration accident analyzes the Minister of Transport Ketil Solvik-Olsen (FRP).

closed Culture
The report dishes committee, chaired by law professor Hans Petter Graver, sharply criticized a secret culture that has evolved Public Roads in recent years.

Between 2005 and 2012, nearly 1,550 so-called UAG reports of fatalities kept secret. Neither the police nor relatives were denied the reports, which either were not made available to the court in connection with picture rape cases.

In 2010 and 2011 introduced Public Roads a routine to reject absolutely any requests for access to accident reports.

– High price
– This closed unit has its price, said Graver when he presented the report Friday.

– It has led to suspicion and weakened confidence the agency, he notes, pointing out that it was precisely the refusal of access that caused VG began to dig into the matter last year.

The case led to widely publicized and suspected that a number of those sentenced for bildrap, could be wrongly convicted.

In May last year decided therefore Solvik-Olsen putting down an independent committee to investigate the case.

– Sorry
Acting veidirektør Lars Aksnes says to VG that he regrets “if the committee feel that they have not got what they asked for.”

– We had intended to give the Graver Committee all the information they wanted, he said. (© NTB)