The Scottish Government

Disqualification period by type of offence and length of disqualification, 2003

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

1,089

4,436

7,953

3,126

2,323

1,816

736

65

584

159

134

25,053

21

Serious Driving Offences

Dangerous driving

11

15

320

74

128

77

61

21

-

354

7

1

1,069

23

Careless driving

104

259

195

31

40

17

12

2

-

11

3

7

681

11

Drunk Driving of which:

19

91

3,589

2,150

949

1,084

670

161

12

66

39

22

8,852

22

Driving while unfit through drink or drugs

-

2

182

70

44

82

41

9

2

6

2

3

443

25

In charge while unfit through drink or drugs

1

6

25

5

5

6

5

1

-

1

-

-

55

21

Driving with excess blood alcohol

2

6

2,839

1,888

813

816

533

127

7

48

29

11

7,119

22

In charge with excess blood alcohol

9

56

139

37

26

25

18

2

-

-

5

1

318

17

Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside

5

8

31

11

6

10

5

2

-

3

-

2

83

21

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

2

13

373

139

55

145

68

20

3

8

3

5

834

24

Failing to stop after accident

33

117

145

13

15

3

14

2

-

4

-

2

348

12

Driving while disqualified

17

125

541

231

606

676

767

428

38

121

93

36

3,679

41

Speeding Offences

Speeding in restricted areas

16

65

2

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

84

6

Other speeding offences ²

453

384

31

3

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

9

881

4

Signal and Direction Offences

Traffic direction offences

1

28

3

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

32

6

Pedestrian crossing offences

-

8

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

8

12

Lighting, Construction & Use Offences

Lighting offences

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

2

12

Construction & use regulations

1

11

4

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

16

7

Documentation Offences

Vehicle excise licence offences

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

No test certificate

1

2

4

2

-

1

-

-

-

-

1

-

11

13

Driving licence offences

68

340

356

83

105

46

31

2

-

2

3

12

1,048

14

Third party insurance offences

358

2,976

2,737

537

782

418

260

119

15

24

13

44

8,283

15

Registration/identification offences

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Other Offences

Failure to provide information to identify driver

2

5

2

1

4

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

15

15

Tachograph etc offences

-

-

-

-

1

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

1

24

Seat belt offences

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Parking offences

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Other offences

5

10

23

1

1

-

-

1

-

1

-

1

43

12