Road traffic incidents relating to road rage or aggressive driving
Keywords
Road; Traffic; Road Rage; Aggressive; Driving; Accident
Publication number
1140
FOI reference number
FOI 14946
Request title
Road traffic incidents relating to road rage or aggressive driving
Date range
01/01/2017 to 31/10/20
Information requested
For each calendar year 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the period 1st January 2020 to 27th October 2020, could you tell me:
1) The number of reported crimes which mentioned “road rage” in the MO field of the crime report
2) A brief summary of each reported crime listed in your answer to question 1
3) The number of road traffic accidents recorded with a contributing factor of “aggressive driving” (code 601)
4) If it is within the time/cost limit of the FOI Act, a brief summary of the incidents listed in your answer to question 3
Disclosure with exemptions
Full
Information correct as at
17/11/20
Date of disclosure
23/11/20
Related documents
N/A
FOI 14946 response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police and in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request. Under Section 1(1)(b) the below has been provided in relation to your FOI.
The date range for this FOI is 01/01/2017 to 31/10/2020.
1. The below table represents number of crimes where the ‘MO’ field was searched to include “road rage” keyword.
|
Year |
Number of Crimes |
|---|---|
|
2017 |
153 |
|
2018 |
110 |
|
2019 |
103 |
|
2020 - data to 31/10/2020 |
117 |
2. The below table represents number of crimes where the ‘MO’ field was searched to include “road rage” keyword, by crime type.
|
Crime Type / Year |
2017 |
2018 |
2019 |
2020 - data to 31/10/2020 |
Grand Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
PUBLIC ORDER OFFENCES |
67 |
44 |
55 |
55 |
221 |
|
VIOLENCE WITHOUT INJURY |
26 |
29 |
17 |
28 |
100 |
|
VIOLENCE WITH INJURY |
36 |
15 |
14 |
19 |
84 |
|
CRIMINAL DAMAGE |
21 |
13 |
13 |
11 |
58 |
|
POSSESSION OF WEAPONS OFFENCES |
4 |
3 |
3 |
10 |
|
|
MISC CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY |
2 |
2 |
4 |
||
|
POSSESSION OF DRUGS |
1 |
1 |
2 |
||
|
VEHICLE OFFENCES |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
BURGLARY - RESIDENTIAL |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
BICYCLE THEFT |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
ROBBERY - PERSONAL |
1 |
1 |
|||
|
Grand Total |
153 |
110 |
103 |
117 |
483 |
3 & 4. The below table number of incidents (from STORM incident system) where the ‘Incident Comment’ field was searched to include “aggressive driving” keyword, for ‘Final Call Types’ including ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, RTC WITH INJ and / or RTC FATAL – of which only RTC was present within ‘Final Call Types’ field
|
Year |
Count of IRN |
|---|---|
|
2017 |
2 |
|
2019 |
1 |
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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