Driving fines
Freedom of Information Act request number: 2022-067
Version date: 10/02/2022
The Road Safety Department have provided the following information:
Data for the period of 2016-2022 (each year's data separately), if possible.
The amount in £ collected in fines for the following offences:
- Holding a Mobile Phone When Driving,
- Dangerously Overtaking Cyclists,
- Ignoring Closed Lanes on a Smart Motorway,
- Speeding,
- Drink Driving,
- Drug Driving,
- Careless Driving
- Driving Without Insurance.
Any fines would be issued by the Courts are collected by Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service and passed to the Treasury. Therefore, Dorset Police do not hold the requested information. Any request for information would need to be addressed to them.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-courts-and-tribunals-service
The number of overall offences related to each example in the above list.
Dorset Police do not hold data relating to ‘Ignoring Closed Lanes on Smart Motorways’ as there are no Motorways (Smart or otherwise) in the county.
Dorset Police do not hold figures in relation to ‘Dangerously overtaking Cyclists’ as this is not a specific offence.
The offence would be ‘Dangerous / Careless Driving‘ and a manual review of each individual record would be needed to determine if it was relevant. This would exceed the time limit for this FOI request.
|
2016 |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
|
|
Using a mobile phone whilst driving* |
696 |
642 |
633 |
247 |
197 |
197 |
|
Speeding* |
45909 |
46647 |
47605 |
51255 |
30067 |
44793 |
|
Drink Driving** |
|
938 |
902 |
807 |
695 |
696 |
|
Drug Driving** |
563 |
789 |
744 |
280 |
244 |
|
|
Driving without due care and attention* |
152 |
178 |
185 |
199 |
276 |
324 |
|
Driving without Insurance* |
570 |
677 |
711 |
682 |
782 |
582 |
*Dorset Central Ticket Office have provided the figures for ‘Using a mobile phone while driving’, ‘Speeding’, ‘Careless Driving’ and ‘Driving without Insurance’ but those figures will relate only to where a Notified Intention of Prosecution (NIP) or a Traffic Offence Report (TOR) has been issued.
**Performance & Analysis Department have provided figures for the number of arrests for ‘Drink Driving’ and ‘Drug Driving’ offences for the years they have available.