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Road Traffic Offences

Answer

Available information held by the Ministry of Justice, from 2004 to 2006 (latest available), is provided in Tables A and B. The data in Table A relate to offences where a death is an integral part of the offence, not to other offences in which a death might have occurred. The circumstances of such offences are not recorded.2007 data should be available by the end of 2008.

Table A: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of causing death¹, by Government office region, England, 2004-06
Number of offences
Government office region	2004	2005	2006
North East	24	28	10
North West	66	53	64
Yorkshire and the Humber	47	66	56
East Midlands	49	40	31
West Midlands	45	40	35
East	30	32	32
London	30	37	34
South East	36	38	65
South West	27	44	20
Total England	354	378	347
Wales	13	20	21
Total England and Wales	367	398	368
¹ Offences under Road Traffic Act section 1 as amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 and Criminal Justice Act 1993 section 67. Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as added by the Road Traffic Act 1991 section 3 and amended by the Criminal justice Act 1993 s. 67. Then Act 1968 section 12A as added by the Aggravated Vehicle taking Act 1992 section 1. Note: 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.

Table B: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of careless driving¹, by Government office region, England, 2004-06
Number of offences
Government office region	2004	2005	2006
North East	1,309	1,272	1,362
North West	4,833	4,606	4,258
Yorkshire and the Humber	2,314	2,337	2,043
East Midlands	2,142	1,903	1,759
West Midlands	3,823	3,872	3,702
East	3,260	3,872	3,822
London	4,785	4,299	3,851
South East	2,996	3,257	3,249
South West	2,796	2,784	2,629
Total England	28,258	28,202	26,675
Wales	2,242	1,903	1,756
Total England and Wales	30,500	30,705	28,431
¹ Offences under sections 3,12 (1), 26 (2), 33 (3), 34 and 168 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; sections 59 (1) (a) (3) (a) and (6) of the Police Reform Act 2002. Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, RR. 19,104-107 and 109 and 110. Note: 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.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

477 c839-40W; 211357

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Road traffic offences

Link

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