NCJ Number
180627
Date Published
May 1999
Length
40 pages
Annotation
Data on traffic law offenses handled by official police action or penalty charge notice in England and Wales in 1997 and earlier years revealed that 9.8 million offenses took place in 1997, an increase of 3 percent from 1996.
Abstract
A total of 3.4 million offenses were handled by fixed penalty notice issues by the police and traffic wardens, an increase of 2 percent from 1996. Local government parking attendants issued 3.8 million penalty charge notices, an increase of 7 percent from 1996. The 2.2 million court proceedings for traffic offenses during 1997 represented a 2 percent decline from 1996. The number of speeding offenses handled by police action increased by 17 percent from 761,000 in 1996 to 891,000 in 1997. Automatic cameras provided evidence for 390,000 offenses in 1997, including 38 percent of the speeding offenses. The 9.8 million traffic offenses in 1997 represented 402 offenses per 1,000 vehicles licensed, compared with 380 per 1,000 in 1990. Figures, tables, notes, and 2 references