Scottish Transport Statistics No 30: 2011 Edition

Table 1.22 Motor vehicle offences recorded by the police by type of offence
Type of offence	2001/02	2002/03	2003/04	2004/05	2005/06	2006/07	2007/08	2008/09	2009/10	2010/11
Serious Driving Offences
Dangerous driving	2,607	2,796	2,842	3,002	2,873	3,044	2,898	2,780	2,567	2,387
Careless driving	9,576	9,884	9,194	10,060	10,083	10,557	10,066	8,739	8,506	7,452
Drunk Driving of which:	11,476	11,838	11,571	11,061	11,257	11,704	10,697	9,800	8,504	7,563
Driving while unfit through drink/drugs	990	940	828	769	809	761	651	547	488	502
In charge while unfit through drink/drugs	121	133	151	17	102	111	107	88	78	59
Driving with excess blood alcohol	7,726	7,892	7,837	7,465	7,337	7,652	7,177	6,774	5,840	4,979
In charge with excess blood alcohol	445	488	507	548	693	754	640	566	471	484
Failing to provide breath specimen at the roadside	881	1,014	915	941	946	1,041	931	779	643	633
Failing to provide breath, blood or urine specimen at a police station	1,313	1,371	1,333	1,321	1,370	1,385	1,191	1,046	984	906
Failing to stop after accident	7,650	7,242	7,373	8,382	8,244	7,225	6,769	6,881	6,552	6,586
Driving while disqualified	4,629	5,129	4,907	4,002	3,853	3,676	3,075	2,659	2,048	1,640
Speeding Offences
Speeding in restricted areas	80,310	66,422	120,949	123,926	93,495	70,758	65,420	52,146	50,788	50,890
Other speeding offences¹	47,261	51,311	78,686	86,642	74,749	93,068	72,956	65,984	63,438	63,948
Signal and Direction Offences
Traffic direction offences	17,339	17,255	23,362	24,399	24,396	22,911	24,477	26,995	31,281	34,195
Pedestrian crossing offences	4,830	3,362	6,071	5,542	4,511	3,767	3,120	3,499	4,137	3,944
Lighting, Construction & Use Offences
Lighting offences	23,226	24,509	18,383	11,884	9,876	8,134	9,009	11,638	12,791	8,910
Construction & use regulations	22,286	21,957	18,811	15,138	14,056	13,036	13,319	13,965	13,875	13,011
Documentation Offences
Vehicle excise licence offences	26,758	27,197	27,815	18,050	17,966	17,699	17,954	15,654	14,688	11,673
No test certificate	15,033	14,931	14,082	9,668	9,007	8,399	10,264	10,892	11,131	10,358
Driving licence offences	16,627	18,377	18,872	15,940	15,288	14,232	12,205	10,861	9,127	7,454
Third party insurance offences	28,365	30,512	30,314	25,202	25,140	25,228	24,093	23,266	20,868	18,124
Registration/identification offences	3,175	3,372	3,536	3,814	3,866	3,824	6,064	5,222	5,397	4,520
Other Offences
Failure to provide information to identify driver	534	615	761	656	728	852	1,088	1,082	1,452	1,206
Tachograph etc offences	3,966	3,085	3,288	2,405	1,894	2,603	3,954	5,440	3,779	2,437
Seat belt offences	38,270	31,012	28,123	29,653	27,308	28,859	26,917	27,053	30,280	30,779
Parking offences	449	601	587	511	419	2,321	2,251	2,467	2,289	2,085
Other offences	4,092	3,152	5,386	14,325	21,388	23,136	21,216	26,447	29,197	31,120
Total offences	368,459	354,559	434,913	424,262	380,397	375,033	347,812	333,470	332,695	320,282

1. Includes motorway and clearway offences, which previously appeared as a separate category under Other offences.