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Table 21
Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police by type of offence, 1996/97 and 2001/02-2005/06
Type of offence | 1996/97 | 2001/02 | 2002/03 | 2003/04 | 2004/05 | 2005/06 | % change
04/05-05/06 |
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Total Offences | 311,076 | 362,574 | 347,982 | 426,658 | 418,680 | 374,325 | -11 |
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Serious Driving Offences |
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Dangerous driving | 2,153 | 2,607 | 2,796 | 2,842 | 3,002 | 2,873 | -4 |
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Careless driving | 14,992 | 9,576 | 9,884 | 9,194 | 10,060 | 10,083 | 0 |
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Drunk Driving of which: | 11,771 | 11,476 | 11,838 | 11,571 | 11,061 | 11,257 | 2 |
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Driving while unfit through drink or drugs | 926 | 990 | 940 | 828 | 769 | 809 | 5 |
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In charge while unfit through drink or drugs | 158 | 121 | 133 | 151 | 17 | 102 | 500 |
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Driving with excess blood alcohol | 7,965 | 7,726 | 7,892 | 7,837 | 7,465 | 7,337 | -2 |
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In charge with excess blood alcohol | 277 | 445 | 488 | 507 | 548 | 693 | 26 |
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Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside | 1,263 | 881 | 1,014 | 915 | 941 | 946 | 1 |
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Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station | 1182 | 1,313 | 1,371 | 1,333 | 1,321 | 1,370 | 4 |
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Failing to stop after accident | 9,392 | 7,650 | 7,242 | 7,373 | 8,382 | 8,244 | -2 |
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Driving while disqualified | 4,199 | 4,629 | 5,129 | 4,907 | 4,002 | 3,853 | -4 |
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Speeding Offences |
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Speeding in restricted areas | 54,195 | 80,310 | 66,422 | 120,949 | 123,926 | 93,495 | -25 |
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Other speeding and related offences (1) | 31,770 | 47,261 | 51,311 | 78,686 | 86,642 | 74,749 | -14 |
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Signal and Direction Offences |
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Traffic direction offences | 15,014 | 17,339 | 17,255 | 23,362 | 24,399 | 24,396 | 0 |
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Pedestrian crossing offences | 4,731 | 4,830 | 3,362 | 6,071 | 5,542 | 4,511 | -19 |
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Lighting, Construction & Use Offences |
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Lighting offences | 22,788 | 23,226 | 24,509 | 18,383 | 11,884 | 9,876 | -17 |
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Construction & use regulations | 34,064 | 22,286 | 21,957 | 18,811 | 15,138 | 14,056 | -7 |
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Documentation Offences |
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Vehicle excise licence offences | 22,682 | 20,873 | 20,620 | 19,560 | 12,468 | 11,894 | -5 |
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No test certificate | 12,360 | 15,033 | 14,931 | 14,082 | 9,668 | 9,007 | -7 |
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Driving licence offences | 11,619 | 16,627 | 18,377 | 18,872 | 15,940 | 15,288 | -4 |
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Third party insurance offences | 22,623 | 28,365 | 30,512 | 30,314 | 25,202 | 25,140 | 0 |
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Registration/identification offences | 4,828 | 3,175 | 3,372 | 3,536 | 3,814 | 3,866 | 1 |
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Other Offences |
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Failure to provide information to identify driver | 693 | 534 | 615 | 761 | 656 | 728 | 11 |
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Tachograph etc offences | 4,458 | 3,966 | 3,085 | 3,288 | 2,405 | 1,894 | -21 |
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Seat belt offences | 24,092 | 38,270 | 31,012 | 28,123 | 29,653 | 27,308 | -8 |
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Parking offences | 805 | 449 | 601 | 587 | 511 | 419 | -18 |
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Other offences 2 | 1,847 | 4,092 | 3,152 | 5,386 | 14,325 | 21,388 | 49 |
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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. There were 16,859 such offences recorded in 2005/06
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