Speeding (17056/19)
Request
1. For the calendar year 2019, the total number of offences recorded by a speed camera or from an officer’s speed radar in your force area where a motorist was found to be going over 100mph.
2. For the calendar year 2018, the total number of offences recorded by a speed camera or from an officer’s speed radar in your force area where a motorist was found to be going over 100mph.
3. The top ten speeds recorded by a speed camera or from an officer’s speed radar that exceeded the limit in your force area in 2018 and then for 2019 too. In each case can you tell me the speed, what the speed limit was, the location, the driver’s age and gender?
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.