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THE SPEEDING DRIVER: WHO, HOW AND WHY?
APPENDIX C POLICE RECORDS CAMERA OFFENCES
C.1 One of the major changes in recent years has been the increase in automatic detection of speeding offences. Figure C1 shows an increase from 22% camera detection in 1995 to 53% in 2000.
Figure C1
C.2 In this study, almost two-thirds (66%) of Conditional Offer (CO) offences and over a quarter (28%) of Police Report (PR) offences were detected automatically by speed camera. (Figures C2 and C3)
Figure C2 Figure C3
C.3 There were, however, differences by age. Figures C4 and C5 show that younger drivers were less likely to be detected by camera.
Figure C4
Figure C5
C.4 The study shows that where detection was by camera, there was an increase in the proportion of female offenders. (Figures C6 and C7)
Figure C6
Figure C7
C.5 A study of the age profile of female camera CO offenders indicates that younger women committed a higher proportion of these speeding offences than older women. Figure C8 shows that 58% of female camera CO offences in the study involved women up to the age of 40 years.
Figure C8
C.6 This differs from the age profile of male camera CO offenders shown in Figure C9. Figure C10 presents the two profiles together.
Figure C9
Figure C10
C.7 When we take account of the miles travelled, we see that men and women were equally as likely to receive a camera CO, although there were differences by age. (Figure C11)
Figure C11
C.8 A study of how fast the CO offenders were travelling when caught by a speed camera again showed little difference between male and female offenders. (Figure C12)
Figure C12
C.9 The study, therefore, concluded that both men and women require to be targeted with anti-speeding publicity.
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