Information on proceedings at Magistrates' courts, drug and drink driving offences and breath tests for 2017.
This is the latest release in the series: Motoring offenders
Series information:
Fixed penalty notices (FPNs)
- In 2017, police and traffic wardens issued 76,600 FPNs in Wales, an increase of 0.4% compared with 2016.
- Speed limit offences accounted for 77.7% (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% 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%) had a positive result, a fall of 2.2% compared with 2016.
Reports
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