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In 2005, the Norwegian Accident Investigation Board (AIBN) was expanded to include a new section for road traffic (henceforth AIBN-Road). Their task, as defined by the Government, is to investigate individual road accidents in order to determine what had actually taken place, and to construct road safety advise on the basis of their investigations. The overall ambition behind the new organisation was to reduce the number of fatalities in road traffic. Hence, in order for the AIBN to fulfil its intended task, knowledge must not merely be accumulated; it must also be used. Using literature from the research utilization tradition as a theoretical framework, this report investigates how the information uncovered by the new section has been taken up and used by actors in the road safety field.