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Court proceedings data are not available at town or local authority area level. Therefore data are included in the table for the Thames Valley police force area.

Data for 2009 are planned for publication in the autumn, 2010.

Number of persons found guilty at all courts in the Thames Valley police force area and England of causing death by dangerous driving( 1) and various careless driving offences( 2) ,in England from 2004 - 08( 3)
Year
Area/offence 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Thames Valley

Death by dangerous driving

12

12

19

24

16

Careless driving

673

754

798

884

2,975

England

Death by dangerous driving

303

324

279

302

259

Careless driving

19,706

19,323

18,204

27,106

55,904

(1) Includes the offences of causing death by dangerous driving, causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving when drunk, causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving, causing death by careless or inconsiderate driving while unlicensed, disqualified or uninsured and aggravated vehicle taking where the driving of the vehicle causes an accident resulting in the death of any person.
(2) Includes the offences of driving without due care and attention or reasonable consideration for other road users, failure to comply with an order to stop a moving vehicle, use of hand held mobile phone while driving, causing or permitting the use of a mobile phone while driving a motor vehicle, Using a mobile phone while supervising the holder of a provisional driving licence to drive a motor vehicle on the road, breach of requirements as to control of vehicle, position which does not give proper control or full view of road and traffic ahead etc. and other careless driving offences and racing.
(3) Excludes convictions for Cardiff magistrates court for April, July and August 2008.
Note:
1. The statistics relate to persons for whom these offences were the principal offences for which they were dealt with. When a defendant has been found guilty of two or more offences the principal offence is the offence for which the heaviest penalty is imposed. Where the same disposal is imposed for two or more offences, the offence selected is the offence for which the statutory maximum penalty is the most severe.
2. Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by the courts and police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.
Source:
Justice Statistics Analytical Services-Ministry of Justice. [Ref. IOS 47-10, PQC 313949].

Driving Offences: M4

Mr. Swire: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many drivers have received a fixed penalty notice for using the bus lane on the M4 in each of the last five years. [317194]

Mr. Alan Campbell: The information requested is not available.

Data on fixed penalty notices for traffic offences reported to the Home Office are broken down by police force area only, and do not specify the specific location where offences took place.

Driving Under Influence

Chris Grayling: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many breathalyser tests were conducted by the police on drivers in each police force area in each year since 1998; and how many people (a) passed, (b) failed and (c) refused to take that test in each such area in each such year. [317949]

Alan Johnson: The figures requested are shown in the following tables. The latest published year is 2007. Figures for tests failed and refusals are combined as they are not reported separately to the Home Office.


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Number of breath tests carried out, by police force area, 1998 to 2007
Police force area 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Avon and Somerset

19,695

19,247

15,805

15372

15,140

24,492

27,297

21,928

15,779

15,655

Bedfordshire

5,295

2,886

3,262

4,212

6,150

6,633

7,764

6,704

3,093

2,578

Cambridgeshire

17,800

13,600

12,800

12,700

13,000

12,300

12,300

12,500

12,500

12,000

Cheshire

23,315

20,505

15,800

13,586

12,224

11,854

20,155

22,005

35,747

32,210

Cleveland

34,181

28,601

18,818

14,054

10,995

8,716

8,056

10,826

11,308

10,140

Cumbria

9,361

7,083

6,076

5,089

4,694

5,513

8,430

13,577

13,804

16,217

Derbyshire

35,684

49,237

52,001

42,147

37,931

32,570

31,023

17,685

16,019

15,873

Devon and Cornwall

15,695

14,731

12,977

13,478

12,618

10,914

10,690

10,423

13,562

16,687

Dorset

10,056

9,203

12,298

10,424

10,431

8,464

6,938

7,917

8,706

8,038

Durham

7,350

12,668

15,306

16,322

9,535

7,558

6,080

7,734

6,945

8,160

Dyfed-Powys

9,232

9,922

7,381

7,008

7,344

5,982

6,686

6,917

7,291

9,429

Essex

28,358

24,077

27,179

18,851

16,139

15,481

25,337

34,249

28,436

25,946

Gloucestershire

9,335

8,330

8,202

9,646

9,339

8,647

7,144

9,122

10,090

8,262

Greater Manchester

31,175

21,479

27,300

23,939

23,200

20,900

19,900

18,900

18,100

18,025

Gwent

11,211

10,639

10,133

6,428

3,784

2,794

1,632

1,957

1,702

2,374

Hampshire

27,348

31,552

35,243

35,189

35,219

37,529

38,399

38,323

34,772

26,208

Hertfordshire

8,147

6,959

5,963

5,460

4,289

4,011

7,289

11,900

12,693

12,030

Humberside

8,284

8,057

9,371

7,477

8,714

6,545

5,619

5,717

10,009

11,885

Kent

27,528

32,706

32,189

32,229

34,165

24,553

32,019

31,187

31,684

28,629

Lancashire

20,283

19,075

15,542

10,016

10,562

7,981

10,204

12,990

16,359

19,158

Leicestershire

20,161

21,127

18,751

14,891

14,526

12,007

15,799

14,419

9,980

6,644

Lincolnshire

25,917

20,998

12,101

13,593

9,013

12,076

11,310

11,431

10,581

14,722

London, City of

3,309

1,746

1,056

1,085

1,413

1,237

683

1,117

1,553

1,375

Merseyside

18,671

18,619

12,787

7,169

6,952

7,722

5,019

8,003

10,642

12,829

Metropolitan Police

111,448

99,832

93,807

65,084

57,206

55,993

61,535

67,461

65,025

66,919

Norfolk

12,419

11,641

9,074

9,096

5,304

4,030

4,805

10,367

7,844

6,366

North Wales

15,236

15,862

14,960

15,141

19,597

17,337

24,177

21,812

19,597

23,034

North Yorkshire

9,911

8,090

6,731

7,431

7,284

8,254

8,589

9,339

10,129

10,526

Northamptonshire

4,664

5,333

5,799

4,539

3,343

3,126

3,200

5,196

4,259

4,076

Northumbria

12,183

12,496

12,727

12,368

11,796

11,123

9,776

9,301

7,992

7,392

Nottinghamshire

8,880

8,361

8,382

7,682

5,799

7,146

8,241

7,923

7,172

7,250

South Wales

24,886

20,674

17,772

19,329

17,496

16,863

16,733

16,269

17,087

19,013

South Yorkshire

12,614

16,094

19,243

18,017

14,414

12,117

6,494

13,689

10,267

11,390

Staffordshire

15,428

10,148

7,706

4,706

5,261

5,073

13,666

14,322

12,723

12,369

Suffolk

15,636

15,134

9,159

8,588

8,868

11,566

10,569

8,854

9,059

10,435

Surrey

11,364

11,696

12,393

13,311

7,504

8,858

9,484

9,605

8,278

6,915

Sussex

17,395

17,885

20,845

21,805

17,297

17,150

15,210

17,983

18,742

16,805

Thames Valley

34,151

30,273

30,824

26,158

25,308

16,049

15,363

14,629

13,538

14,850

Warwickshire

8,661

8,604

7,057

5,828

5,068

5,848

5,496

4,820

4,458

4,877

West Mercia

19,090

12,340

8,930

9,070

8,215

6,289

7,991

8,833

11,267

10,438

West Midlands

24,099

21,324

16,221

12,203

10,510

10,960

6,579

6,900

6,229

5,611

West Yorkshire

22,894

18,807

18,278

17,219

16,739

14,157

16,921

15,367

18,011

18,724

Wiltshire

7,118

6,841

6,501

5,941

5,850

5,867

7,398

7,167

8,708

7,688

England and Wales

815,468

764,482

714,750

623,881

570,236

534,285

578,000

607,368

601,740

599,752

Note:
Figures do not always match those in each year's breath test statistics publication, due to subsequent amendments being incorporated.

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