Statistical Bulletin CrJ/1999/2 Page :11

Statistical Bulletin CrJ/1999/2: Motor Vehicle Offences in Scotland 1997

Motor vehicle offences proceeded against in court by type of offence and result of proceedings, 1997

Table 8

Type of offence	Total Offen- ces	Not Tri- ed	Char- ge with- drawn etc⁽¹⁾	Charge proved or accepted
				Total			Custodial			Fine			Admonished			Other sentence
				Total	Dis- qual -ified	End- orse -ment	Total	Dis- qual -ified	End- orse -ment	Total	Dis- qual -ified	End- orse -ment	Total	Dis- qual -ified	End- orse -ment	Total	Dis- qual -ified	End- orse -ment
Total offences	98,877	228	12,960	85,689	22,997	31,803	2,164	1,986	85	69,644	17,143	27,194	10,931	1,838	4,033	2,950	2,030	491

Serious Driving Offences
Dangerous or reckless driving	1,479	2	199	1,278	1,062	152	264	248	5	789	625	136	34	21	3	191	168	8
Careless driving	6,642	9	839	5,794	822	4,128	6	3	2	5,137	685	3,759	546	98	321	105	36	46
Drunk Driving of which:	11,105	9	1,235	9,861	9,126	388	359	338	8	8,555	8,050	292	294	149	67	653	589	21

Driving while unfit through drink or drugs	720	1	173	546	512	15	50	48	-	405	386	10	23	16	2	68	62	3
In charge while unfit through drink or drugs	76	-	20	56	44	9	1	1	-	46	34	9	2	2	-	7	7	-
Driving with excess blood alcohol	7,734	4	227	7,503	7,303	78	229	219	2	6,740	6,608	59	99	67	10	435	409	7
In charge with excess blood alcohol	300	-	59	241	177	53	6	4	1	218	159	51	5	2	1	12	12	-
Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside	983	1	506	476	164	177	2	2	-	320	114	120	118	29	48	36	19	9
Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station-	1,292	3	250	1,039	926	56	71	64	5	826	749	43	47	33	6	95	80	2

Failing to stop after accident	4,290	5	1,536	2,749	459	1,282	34	23	6	2,015	333	985	587	57	253	113	46	38
Driving while disqualified	3,849	2	287	3,560	3,293	159	1,435	1,350	42	1,047	972	55	100	55	34	978	916	28

Speeding Offences
Speeding in restricted areas	6,772	4	65	6,703	342	5,003	-	-	-	6,653	337	4,978	49	5	25	1	-	-
Other speeding offences	5,989	4	90	5,895	591	4,799	-	-	-	5,874	586	4,789	20	4	10	1	1	-

Signal and Direction Offences
Traffic direction offences	2,400	9	385	2,006	57	1,048	1	-	-	1,796	52	999	190	5	44	19	-	5
Pedestrian crossing offences	584	4	31	549	24	383	-	-	-	528	24	376	21	-	7	-	-	-

Lighting, Construction & Use Offences
Lighting offences	1,881	6	409	1,466	2	91	-	-	-	1,166	-	76	287	1	14	13	1	1
Construction & use regulations	5,348	12	945	4,391	85	1,510	-	-	-	3,802	71	1,353	576	11	156	13	3	1

Documentation Offences
Vehicle excise licence offences	5,910	24	180	5,706	2	36	1	-	-	5,378	2	34	320	-	2	7	-	-
No test certificate	6,730	30	2,053	4,647	19	157	1	-	-	3,171	13	101	1,433	6	50	42	-	6
Driving licence offences	8,283	28	1,567	6,688	739	3,137	7	1	4	4,606	454	2,167	1,852	240	860	223	44	106
Third party insurance offences	19,551	48	2,070	17,433	6,329	9,263	55	22	18	12,977	4,904	6,871	3,839	1,180	2,149	562	223	225
Registration/ identification offences	541	2	122	417	1	9	-	-	-	340	-	8	75	1	1	2	-	-

Other Offences
Failure to provide information to identify driver	231	-	112	119	18	48	-	-	-	87	16	40	26	1	5	6	1	3
Tachograph etc offences	2,626	15	327	2,284	5	30	-	-	-	2,049	4	29	234	1	1	1	-	-
Seat belt offences	3,049	9	228	2,812	1	36	-	-	-	2,634	1	30	175	-	6	3	-	-
Parking offences	466	6	19	441	1	11	-	-	-	430	1	11	11	-	-	-	-	-
Motorway and Clearway offences	39	-	-	39	3	31	-	-	-	37	3	31	2	-	-	-	-	-
Other offences	1,112	-	261	851	16	102	1	1	-	573	10	74	260	3	25	17	2	3

(1) Includes charge withdrawn, not guilty and not proven