In 1996, the Swedish Government charged the Swedish Road Administration with the task of introducing a national information system for traffic accidents called STRADA - (Swedish Traffic Accident Data Acquisition). STRADA, unlike the previous information system OLY (the Road Authority's accident register/the Road Authority's information system on traffic safety) was to also include traffic accidents reported at hospitals and thus reducing the number of unreported accidents and provide a better basis for traffic safety efforts at the local, regional and national levels. The aim of this study is to examine how well the ambitions of STRADA were fulfilled from the viewpoint of various interested parties. The method used was qualitative, 43 different persons being interviewed. The interviewees represented those who the Government had selected to work with the development of STRADA and those who had been tasked to either put in data or use data from STRADA.