Motoring offenders: 2017

Key points

Fixed penalty notices (FPNs)

• In 2017, police and traffic wardens issued 76,600 FPNs in Wales, an increase of 0.4 per cent compared with 2016.
• Speed limit offences accounted for 77.7 per cent (59,500) of these.

Court proceedings

• 46,900 motoring offenders were dealt with by the magistrates’ courts in Wales in 2017. This is a fall of 27.6 per cent since 2016; however this does not necessarily reflect a genuine fall in the number of prosecutable offences committed in Wales.
• The most common groups of offences were 'speed limit offences' (14,500) and 'vehicle insurance offences' (10,500). 'Vehicle test offences' (15) was the least common offence group.

Screening breath tests

• In 2017, 37,000 screening breath tests were carried out in Wales. 4,500 of these tests (11 per cent) had a positive result, a fall of 2.2 per cent compared with 2016.