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Driving Offences: Hampshire

Sandra Gidley: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice how many people in each age group have been (a) charged and (b) convicted of driving offences of each type in (i) Southampton and (ii) the ceremonial county of Hampshire in each of the last five years. [264913]

Mr. Malik: The number of proceedings at magistrates courts and findings of guilt at all courts for driving offences in Hampshire from 2003 to 2007 (latest available), broken down by age group are given in the following tables.

Charging data are not collected centrally and prosecutions data are given in lieu. Information is collected at police force area level; figures for Southampton are not available.

Data for 2008 will be available in the autumn of 2009.

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Table 1: Number of persons proceeded against at magistrates courts for various motoring offences within Hampshire police force area by age group, 2003-07( 1, 2)
Number of offences
		2003			2004			2005
Offences group	Offence type	under 21	21 and over	Total	under 21	21 and over	Total	under 21	21 and over	Total
1	Causing death or bodily harm	—	11	11	6	4	10	2	12	14
2	Dangerous driving	87	181	268	93	191	284	60	156	216
3	Driving etc, after consuming alcohol or taking drugs	557	3,484	4,041	563	3,558	4,121	493	3,206	3,699
4	Careless driving	290	1,097	1,387	249	1,158	1,407	240	926	1,166
5	Accident offences	177	709	886	165	695	860	123	493	616
6	Unauthorised taking or theft of motor vehicle	663	480	1,143	579	359	938	500	348	848
7	Driving licence related offences	3,111	9,528	12,639	2,649	9,005	11,654	2,103	7,099	9,202
9	Vehicle insurance offences	3,571	11,721	15,292	3,057	11,311	14,368	2,481	8,953	11,434
10	Vehicle registration and excise licence offences	354	8,482	8,836	347	8,237	8,584	253	5,756	6,009
11	Work record and employment offences	—	745	745	—	633	633	—	274	274
12	Operator's licence offences	—	63	63	1	68	69	—	27	27
13	Vehicle test offences	2,140	7,929	10,069	1,671	6,861	8,532	1,189	4,926	6,115
14	Fraud, forgery etc., associated with vehicle or driver records	44	380	424	38	348	386	27	176	203
15	Vehicle or part in dangerous or defective condition	266	973	1,239	181	724	905	137	476	613
16	Speed limit offences	333	5,344	5,677	286	4,339	4,625	333	5,178	5,511
17	Motorway offences(other than speeding)	9	78	87	8	96	104	7	57	64
18	Neglect of traffic directions	108	654	762	156	577	733	151	646	797
19	Neglect of pedestrian rights	30	71	101	13	78	91	34	62	96
20	Obstruction, waiting and parking offences	1	151	152	1	99	100	—	30	30
21	Lighting offences	101	377	478	58	166	224	17	48	65
22	Noise offences	26	109	135	22	80	102	19	50	69
23	Load offences	6	213	219	1	138	139	—	55	55
24	Offences peculiar to motor cycles	72	11	83	61	20	81	102	27	129
25	Miscellaneous motoring offences	139	1,479	1,618	137	1,808	1,945	112	2,172	2,284
	Total all offences	12,085	54,270	66,355	10,342	50,553	60,895	8,383	41,153	49,536

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