Publication - Statistics

Scottish Transport Statistics No 29: 2010 Edition

Published: 20 December 2010
ISBN: 9780755998449

Has figures on (e.g.) road vehicles, traffic, accidents, bus and rail passengers, road and rail freight, air and water transport, finance, personal travel and international comparisons.

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Table 1.22 Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police by type of offence

Type of offence	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10
Serious Driving Offences
Dangerous driving	2,051	2,607	2,796	2,842	3,002	2,873	3,044	2,898	2,780	2,567
Careless driving	9,968	9,576	9,884	9,194	10,060	10,083	10,557	10,066	8,739	8,506
Drunk Driving of which:	10,758	11,476	11,838	11,571	11,061	11,257	11,704	10,697	9,800	8,504
Driving while unfit through drink/drugs	799	990	940	828	769	809	761	651	547	488
In charge while unfit through drink/drugs	126	121	133	151	17	102	111	107	88	78
Driving with excess blood alcohol	7,161	7,726	7,892	7,837	7,465	7,337	7,652	7,177	6,774	5,840
In charge with excess blood alcohol	349	445	488	507	548	693	754	640	566	471
Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside	917	881	1,014	915	941	946	1,041	931	779	643
Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station	1,406	1,313	1,371	1,333	1,321	1,370	1,385	1,191	1,046	984
Failing to stop after accident	8,300	7,650	7,242	7,373	8,382	8,244	7,225	6,769	6,881	6,552
Driving while disqualified	4,331	4,629	5,129	4,907	4,002	3,853	3,676	3,075	2,659	2,048
Speeding Offences
Speeding in restricted areas	69,222	80,310	66,422	120,949	123,926	93,495	70,758	65,420	52,146	50,788
Other speeding offences ¹	45,091	47,261	51,311	78,686	86,642	74,749	93,068	72,956	65,984	63,438
Signal and Direction Offences
Traffic direction offences	15,129	17,339	17,255	23,362	24,399	24,396	22,911	24,477	26,995	31,281
Pedestrian crossing offences	4,232	4,830	3,362	6,071	5,542	4,511	3,767	3,120	3,499	4,137
Lighting, Construction & Use Offences
Lighting offences	24,460	23,226	24,509	18,383	11,884	9,876	8,134	9,009	11,638	12,791
Construction & use regulations	22,385	22,286	21,957	18,811	15,138	14,056	13,036	13,319	13,965	13,875
Documentation Offences
Vehicle excise licence offences	24,991	26,758	27,197	27,815	18,050	17,966	17,699	17,954	15,654	14,688
No test certificate	13,182	15,033	14,931	14,082	9,668	9,007	8,399	10,264	10,892	11,131
Driving licence offences	13,780	16,627	18,377	18,872	15,940	15,288	14,232	12,205	10,861	9,127
Third party insurance offences	24,584	28,365	30,512	30,314	25,202	25,140	25,228	24,093	23,266	20,868
Registration/identification offences	3,483	3,175	3,372	3,536	3,814	3,866	3,824	6,064	5,222	5,397
Other Offences
Failure to provide information to identify driver	537	534	615	761	656	728	852	1,088	1,082	1,452
Tachograph etc offences	3,734	3,966	3,085	3,288	2,405	1,894	2,603	3,954	5,440	3,779
Seat belt offences	37,235	38,270	31,012	28,123	29,653	27,308	28,859	26,917	27,053	30,280
Parking offences	672	449	601	587	511	419	2,321	2,251	2,467	2,289
Other offences	3,090	4,092	3,152	5,386	14,325	21,388	23,136	21,216	26,447	29,197
Total offences	341,215	368,459	354,559	434,913	424,262	380,397	375,033	347,812	333,470	332,695

1. Includes motorway and clearway offences, which previously appeared as a separate category under Other offences.

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Table 1.22 Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police by type of offence

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