Road Traffic Offences: Cycling

(asked on 3rd November 2014) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Justice:

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many pedal cyclists in each police force area have been convicted of each type of offence relating to contravention of Road Traffic Acts in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Mike Penning Portrait
Mike Penning
This question was answered on 10th November 2014

The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, found guilty and fined for offences relating to pedal cycles by gender, age group and police force area in England and Wales, from 2003 to 2013 (the latest available) can be viewed in the table 1.

The number of persons proceeded against at magistrates’ courts, found guilty and fined for offences connected with pedal cycles by gender, age group and court can be viewed in the table 2.

Trend data can be viewed in table 3.

Data on fixed penalty notices and data on warrants for the arrest of the offender are not held centrally by the Ministry of Justice. Furthermore, data held centrally on the Court Proceedings Database is not available at constituency level.

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