Table 21: Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police by type of offence, 1996/97 and 2002/03-2006/07
Type of offence | 1997/98 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | 2006/07 | % change
05/06-06/07 |
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Total Offences | 339,581 | 354,559 | 434,913 | 424,262 | 380,397 | 375,033 | -1 |
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Serious Driving Offences |
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Dangerous driving | 2,140 | 2,796 | 2,842 | 3,002 | 2,873 | 3,044 | 6 |
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Careless driving | 14,093 | 9,884 | 9,194 | 10,060 | 10,083 | 10,557 | 5 |
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Drunk Driving of which: | 11,118 | 11,838 | 11,571 | 11,061 | 11,257 | 11,704 | 4 |
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Driving while unfit through drink or drugs | 935 | 940 | 828 | 769 | 809 | 761 | -6 |
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In charge while unfit through drink or drugs | 189 | 133 | 151 | 17 | 102 | 111 | 9 |
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Driving with excess blood alcohol | 7,634 | 7,892 | 7,837 | 7,465 | 7,337 | 7,652 | 4 |
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In charge with excess blood alcohol | 272 | 488 | 507 | 548 | 693 | 754 | 9 |
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Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside | 1,032 | 1,014 | 915 | 941 | 946 | 1,041 | 10 |
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Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station | 1,056 | 1,371 | 1,333 | 1,321 | 1,370 | 1,385 | 1 |
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Failing to stop after accident | 9,250 | 7,242 | 7,373 | 8,382 | 8,244 | 7,225 | -12 |
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Driving while disqualified | 4,151 | 5,129 | 4,907 | 4,002 | 3,853 | 3,676 | -5 |
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Speeding Offences |
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Speeding in restricted areas | 61,496 | 66,422 | 120,949 | 123,926 | 93,495 | 70,758 | -24 |
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Other speeding and related offences (1) | 34,671 | 51,311 | 78,686 | 86,642 | 74,749 | 93,068 | 25 |
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Signal and Direction Offences |
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Traffic direction offences | 18,861 | 17,255 | 23,362 | 24,399 | 24,396 | 22,911 | -6 |
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Pedestrian crossing offences | 5,498 | 3,362 | 6,071 | 5,542 | 4,511 | 3,767 | -16 |
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Lighting, Construction & Use Offences |
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Lighting offences | 26,383 | 24,509 | 18,383 | 11,884 | 9,876 | 8,134 | -18 |
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Construction & use regulations | 35,948 | 21,957 | 18,811 | 15,138 | 14,056 | 13,036 | -7 |
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Documentation Offences |
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Vehicle excise licence offences | 23,136 | 27,197 | 27,815 | 18,050 | 17,966 | 17,699 | -1 |
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No test certificate | 11,887 | 14,931 | 14,082 | 9,668 | 9,007 | 8,399 | -7 |
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Driving licence offences | 11,573 | 18,377 | 18,872 | 15,940 | 15,288 | 14,232 | -7 |
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Third party insurance offences | 21,712 | 30,512 | 30,314 | 25,202 | 25,140 | 25,228 | 0 |
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Registration/identification offences | 4,841 | 3,372 | 3,536 | 3,814 | 3,866 | 3,824 | -1 |
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Other Offences |
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Failure to provide information to identify driver | 367 | 615 | 761 | 656 | 728 | 852 | 17 |
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Tachograph etc offences | 8,773 | 3,085 | 3,288 | 2,405 | 1,894 | 2,603 | 37 |
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Seat belt offences | 30,613 | 31,012 | 28,123 | 29,653 | 27,308 | 28,859 | 6 |
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Parking offences | 951 | 601 | 587 | 511 | 419 | 2,321 | 454 |
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Other offences 2 | 2,119 | 3,152 | 5,386 | 14,325 | 21,388 | 23,136 | 8 |
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1 Includes other speeding, clearway and motorway offences
2 Includes the offence of driving while using a mobile phone, introduced in December 2003.