Arrests for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving & Speeding Offences 2019 to 2023
Publication Number: 1561
FOI Number: 20822
Information Request – which has been renumbered to assist with the disclosure
1. How many arrests have you made for causing death by dangerous driving? - 2019 – 2023
Insert number
2. What was the age profile of each person at the time of arrest? - 2019 – 2023
15 - 17: insert number
18 - 24:
25 - 29:
30 - 39:
40 - 49:
50 - 59:
60 - 69:
70+:
Unkown:
3. What was the vehicle type of the person arrested for causing death by dangerous driving? - 2019 - 2023
Car: insert number
Motorbike:
Moped:
Bus:
Lorry:
Other/ not known:
4. How many speeding tickets have you issued? - 2019 – 2023
Insert number
5. Please provide a very top line on any preventative measures you have put in place and what year they were introduced - 2019 – 2023
For example, reducing the speed limit on X number of roads ( 2023), X speed cameras introduced (2021), new safe driving campaign (being developed)
FOI Duty
First Duty – Essex Police can neither confirm nor deny information is held
Second Duty – See below
Fact – It is not possible to locate and confirm that all the data in your request is held
Exemption - Section 12(2)
Refusal - Section 17(5) of FOIA
Reasoning - Essex Police are unable to provide a data report to respond to this request, as any data / information that may be held is not held in a readily extractable format, nor is the existence of such data / information recorded in a readily identifiable central log.
With regard to Question 5, Essex Police is unable to provide a comprehensive report on all preventative measures put in place by Essex Police to address speeding and / or to promote safer driving between 2019 and 2023 as there is no central log of such measures from which this information could be accurately extracted. To attempt to answer this question would require contacting all sections of the force to ask them to report of any relevant preventative measures that took place within the time frame of the question, collating the responses received and then collating them into a bespoke report. Also many of these measures will be carried out in cooperation with other bodies such as Essex County Council (ECC), Essex Highways, the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Essex (PFCC), the Safer Essex Roads Partnership, etc.
To establish if information is held would, therefore, exceed the time and cost limits under the FOIA and would qualify as the creation of data as the results cannot be processed by means of purely sorting or filtering data sources or running a database query tool. There is no requirement under the act to create data purely to answer FOI requests.
Duty to assist – When refusing a request on cost (Section 12(1)/12(2)), outside of the act and in effort to assist we can provide the following
Essex Police can however report as follows:
Caveat: The data and statements are correct as at 18 October 2024
Notes for Questions 1 to 3
- The data relates to arrests where the reason for arrest was 'Driving - Causing Death by Dangerous Driving'.
- The data does NOT include Driving - Causing Death By Careless Driving When Under The Influence Of Drink Or Drugs, Driving - Causing Death by Careless/Inconsiderate Driving, or Driving - Causing Death When No D/L or No Ins or Disqualified.
- Some custody records show that multiple people were arrested for the same offence, whilst it was established who the driver was. These have each been counted once.
- The type of vehicle shown, is the type that the arrested person was driving/ suspected to be driving. However, in some cases the incident involved different types of vehicles - e.g. a motorcycle and a car collided. It does not necessarily mean that the driver of the car was responsible for the collision, but as the motorcyclist was the casualty, the car driver was arrested.
- Where the vehicle type is 'not stated', the index number is known, but the vehicle make/ model is not shown.
Q1. How many arrests have you made for causing death by dangerous driving? - 2019 – 2023
Numbers of Arrests for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving by Year – 2019 to 2023
|
Year |
Number of arrests |
|
2019 |
15 |
|
2020 |
20 |
|
2021 |
19 |
|
2022 |
14 |
|
2023 |
8 |
|
Total |
76 |
Q2. What was the age profile of each person at the time of arrest? - 2019 – 2023
Numbers of Arrests for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving by Age Group and Year – 2019 to 2023
|
Age Group |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
|
15-17 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
18-24 |
5 |
3 |
8 |
5 |
3 |
24 |
|
25-29 |
2 |
7 |
2 |
1 |
0 |
12 |
|
30-39 |
5 |
4 |
1 |
6 |
1 |
17 |
|
40-49 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
|
50-59 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
|
60-69 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
70+ |
0 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
|
Grand Total |
15 |
20 |
19 |
14 |
8 |
76 |
Q3. What was the vehicle type of the person arrested for causing death by dangerous driving? - 2019 - 2023
Numbers of Arrests for Causing Death by Dangerous Driving by Vehicle Type and Year – 2019 to 2023
|
Type of vehicle |
2019 |
2020 |
2021 |
2022 |
2023 |
Total |
|
Car |
13 |
10 |
9 |
12 |
2 |
46 |
|
HGV/ Lorry |
1 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
8 |
|
Motorcycle |
1 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
8 |
|
Not stated |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
Off road bike |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Van/ pick-up |
0 |
3 |
5 |
0 |
1 |
9 |
|
Grand Total |
15 |
20 |
19 |
14 |
8 |
76 |
Q4. How many speeding tickets have you issued? - 2019 – 2023
Numbers of Speeding Offences Detected by Year – 2019 to 2023
|
Year |
Speeding Offences |
|
2019 |
71,695 |
|
2020 |
54,493 |
|
2021 |
64,511 |
|
2022 |
76,167 |
|
2023 |
98,297 |
|
Total |
365,163 |
Q5. Please provide a very top line on any preventative measures you have put in place and what year they were introduced - 2019 – 2023
As explained above, we are unable to provide a comprehensive answer to this question as there is no central log of such measures. We can however provide the following examples that concern both Essex Police and other relevant public bodies:
- The Essex Police Speed enforcement Team record speed offences which are dealt with by either a Notice of Intended prosecution (NiPS), NDORS Educational course, Fixed Penalty, or court summons.
- ECC/Essex Highways introduce speed limits or restrictions. Their Speed Strategy plan is here: https://www.essexhighways.org/uploads/files/strategy_speed_management_strategy.pdf
- The PFCC Plan has some information on road safety: Improving safety on our roads - Essex Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner (pfcc.police.uk)
- Other safe driving campaigns are advised through the Safer Essex Roads Partnership - Safer Essex Roads Partnership
Every effort is made to ensure that the data provided by Essex Police is accurate and complete. However, Essex Police systems are designed primarily for the management of individual cases and not for the purposes of providing data to answer specific FOI enquiries. Please note although data can be extracted from a number of sources via database queries, the results may be subject to inaccuracies. Care should be taken to understand our return when considering the interpretation or further use of the data.
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