The Scottish Government

Disqualification period by type of offence and length of disqualification, 2002

Table 22

Type of offence

3 months or less

4-6 months

7-12 months

13-18 months

19-24 months

25-36 months

Over 3 yrs to 5 yrs

Over 5 yrs to 10 yrs

Over 10 years

Till pass test

Life

No separate figure

Total

Average length of disqual- ification ⁽¹⁾ (months)

Total offences

1,184

4,148

8,045

3,082

2,565

2,470

1,756

695

59

894

158

148

25,204

21

Serious Driving Offences

Dangerous driving

7

10

243

68

78

54

50

13

4

454

6

2

989

24

Careless driving

81

231

205

30

31

14

6

1

-

21

8

6

634

10

Drunk Driving of which:

26

97

3,871

2,212

1,002

1,201

662

193

5

152

31

16

9,468

22

Driving while unfit through drink or drugs

-

2

220

98

68

89

55

13

-

6

4

1

556

25

In charge while unfit through drink or drugs

1

10

27

4

6

4

2

1

-

-

-

-

55

17

Driving with excess blood alcohol

8

8

3,134

1,918

815

926

528

155

5

116

21

8

7,642

22

In charge with excess blood alcohol

13

54

129

40

27

24

6

5

-

2

2

1

303

16

Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside

1

8

25

4

6

20

5

2

-

4

1

3

79

25

Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station

3

15

336

148

80

138

66

17

-

24

3

3

833

23

Failing to stop after accident

18

105

108

11

15

19

10

-

-

3

2

3

294

13

Driving while disqualified

18

84

539

181

607

682

742

377

41

179

96

36

3,582

42

Speeding Offences

Speeding in restricted areas

23

97

5

1

2

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

129

6

Other speeding offences

407

378

28

1

3

-

1

-

-

1

-

7

826

4

Signal and Direction Offences

Traffic direction offences

13

39

4

-

2

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

59

6

Pedestrian crossing offences

2

6

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

8

5

Lighting, Construction & Use Offences

Lighting offences

-

-

1

-

-

-

4

-

-

-

-

3

8

41

Construction & use regulations

1

24

6

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

7

39

7

Documentation Offences

Vehicle excise licence offences

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

12

No test certificate

-

5

4

1

1

3

-

-

-

1

-

4

19

16

Driving licence offences

78

278

346

70

88

48

16

5

-

10

-

16

955

13

Third party insurance offences

505

2,773

2,661

505

733

445

262

106

9

70

15

46

8,130

15

Registration/identification offences

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

1

13

Other Offences

Failure to provide information to identify driver

1

8

8

-

-

2

1

-

-

-

-

-

20

6

Tachograph etc offences

Seat belt offences

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

6

Parking offences

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

13

Other offences

4

11

14

1

3

2

1

-

-

3

-

-

39

12