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Road Traffic Offences

Volume 477: debated on Tuesday 17 June 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many people in England were convicted for (a) motoring offences that resulted in a fatality and (b) careless driving in each of the last three years, broken down by region. (211357)

Available information held by the Ministry of Justice, from 2004 to 2006 (latest available), is provided in Tables A and B. The data in Table A relate to offences where a death is an integral part of the offence, not to other offences in which a death might have occurred. The circumstances of such offences are not recorded.

2007 data should be available by the end of 2008.

Table A: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of causing death1, by Government office region, England, 2004-06

Number of offences

Government office region

2004

2005

2006

North East

24

28

10

North West

66

53

64

Yorkshire and the Humber

47

66

56

East Midlands

49

40

31

West Midlands

45

40

35

East

30

32

32

London

30

37

34

South East

36

38

65

South West

27

44

20

Total England

354

378

347

Wales

13

20

21

Total England and Wales

367

398

368

1 Offences under Road Traffic Act section 1 as amended by the Road Traffic Act 1991 and Criminal Justice Act 1993 section 67. Section 3A of the Road Traffic Act 1988 as added by the Road Traffic Act 1991 section 3 and amended by the Criminal justice Act 1993 s. 67. Then Act 1968 section 12A as added by the Aggravated Vehicle taking Act 1992 section 1. 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 the courts and 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.

Table B: Findings of guilt at all courts for motoring offences of careless driving1, by Government office region, England, 2004-06

Number of offences

Government office region

2004

2005

2006

North East

1,309

1,272

1,362

North West

4,833

4,606

4,258

Yorkshire and the Humber

2,314

2,337

2,043

East Midlands

2,142

1,903

1,759

West Midlands

3,823

3,872

3,702

East

3,260

3,872

3,822

London

4,785

4,299

3,851

South East

2,996

3,257

3,249

South West

2,796

2,784

2,629

Total England

28,258

28,202

26,675

Wales

2,242

1,903

1,756

Total England and Wales

30,500

30,705

28,431

1 Offences under sections 3,12 (1), 26 (2), 33 (3), 34 and 168 of the Road Traffic Act 1988; sections 59 (1) (a) (3) (a) and (6) of the Police Reform Act 2002. Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, RR. 19,104-107 and 109 and 110. 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 the courts and 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.