Road Traffic Offences
(asked on 27th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the number of people (a) charged and (b) found guilty of traffic offences in the UK in each year since 2010.
Statistics on prosecutions and convictions for motoring offences are available from the Ministry of Justice Motoring tool and shown below for years 2010 to 2017 for England and Wales:
Motoring offences | ||
| Number of defendants prosecuted at Magistrates' Court | Number of offenders found guilty at all courts |
2010 | 681,594 | 586,515 |
2011 | 610,045 | 526,200 |
2012 | 570,481 | 489,588 |
2013 | 565,611 | 480,720 |
2014 | 591,118 | 512,043 |
2015 | 645,719 | 560,566 |
2016 | 667,317 | 590,260 |
2017 | 664,390 | 594,927 |
Source: MoJ Motoring Offences tool | ||
The Ministry of Justice does not hold data for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
On motoring offences charges, the Home Office does not hold data on these charges apart from ‘causing death by dangerous driving’, because these offences are non-notifiable.