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.
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
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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.