The information contained in this Project Veronica-II Final Report has been collated following wide-ranging consultation with practitioners that includes collision investigators, enforcement authorities, legal institutions, public and private sector representatives and relevant EU and EU Member State governmental organisations. Accordingly this Report provides evidence and guidance on Project Veronica-II’s emerging findings; to support this, the Report also draws upon an exhaustive examination of the US standard on EDRs. Where they are available the known evidence, drawn from a diverse range of public and private sector organisations, has been incorporated within this Report to present a definitive statement on recommendations for EDR requirements in Europe at mid-2009. The Project Final Report aims to present EDR’s most appropriate requirements, also to collate and consolidate information that will aid the introduction of EDR technologies in Europe and to provide a recommendation for a draft Directive. This includes requirements essential to the most effective evidential chain that will ultimately satisfy road safety research, collision investigation requirements and procedures. This Project Final Report incorporates the emerging findings from Project Veronica-II's research to date, and although incomplete, represents an authoritative comment on the current state of EDR technologies; consequently this Report is commended, in lieu of contradictory information, as current ‘best evidence’ (Author/publisher)
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