[holding answer 27 March 2007]: Available information on seat belt and speed limit offences taken from the Fixed Penalty Notices Collection held by the Office for Criminal Justice Reform, from 2000 to 2004 (latest available) is provided in the table.
2005 data will be available later this year.
Thousand 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Seat belt offences2 155 144 126 146 202 Speed limit offences3 942 1,151 1,407 1,895 1,924 1 Covers tickets paid where there is no further action. 2 Offences under the Road Traffic Act 1988 ss.14 (3) and 15 (2) & (4). 3 Offences under the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 ss. 16, 81, 84, 86, 88 & 89; Motor Vehicles (Speed Limits on Motorways) Regs. 1973; Parks Regulation (Amendment) Act 1926 - byelaws made thereunder. Note: Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from large administrative data systems generated by police forces. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when those data are used.