Road Traffic Accidents (1643A/23)
Request
1) How many road traffic accidents were you called to during the following time periods?
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
2) How many road traffic accidents in these time periods involved speeding that exceeded the speed limit by the following miles per hour (mph)?
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
3) Where the incident DID involve speeding, what was the age breakdown of road traffic accident offenders, in these time periods:
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
4) Where the incident DID NOT involve speeding, what was the age breakdown of road traffic accident offenders, in these time periods:
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
5) Where the incident DID involve speeding, what was the gender breakdown of road traffic accident offenders, in these time periods:
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
6) Where the incident DID NOT involve speeding, what was the gender breakdown of road traffic accident offenders, in these time periods:
Between 1 September 2021 – 31 August 2022
Between 1 September 2022 – 31 August 2023
Response
Please find attached our response.
Every effort is made to ensure that the figures presented are accurate and complete. However, it is important to note that these data have been extracted from a number of data sources used by forces for police purposes. The detail collected to respond specifically to your request is subject to the inaccuracies inherent in any large scale recording system. As a consequence, care should be taken to ensure data collection processes and their inevitable limitations are taken into account when interpreting those data.
The figures provided therefore are our best interpretation of relevance of data to your request, but you should be aware that the collation of figures for ad hoc requests may have limitations and this should be taken into account when those data are used.
If you decide to write an article / use the enclosed data we would ask you to take into consideration the factors highlighted in this document so as to not mislead members of the public or official bodies, or misrepresent the relevance of the whole or any part of this disclosed material.