A WORKING party of councillors set up to make sure police accident data was usable is to finish off its work.

It was set up after the Warrington Guardian revealed how a confidential council report blasted the accuracy of Cheshire Police's crash information.

One fatal accident was mis-recorded by 25 miles - that kind of problem made it hard for council road safety engineers to identify accident hotspots.

That was mainly down to the Omega computer system - and councillors formed the working party at the start of the year to try to get Omega replaced with a better system designed to deal with crash information.

Their lobbying helped the police decide not to replace it with a similar system called Atlas, but a specially designed computer programme called Key Accident Systems that is used by Merseyside Police.

Council officers believe it will be much better at giving them accurate information.

At Tuesday's meeting of the Sustainable Environment and Regeneration Overview and Scrutiny Committee, the members decided the working party should come back with a final report in September before looking at congestion issues.