Road Traffic Accidents/Cameras

  • Reference Number: 1641
  • Date released: 03 February 2009

Request

Could you please provide the following information on a quarterly basis for the years 2000 to 2008:

  1. The number of road traffic accident fatalities within your constabulary.
  2. The number of active fixed speed cameras within the same area.
  3. The number of speeding fines issued within the same area.
  4. The number of days of active deployment of mobile speed traps.
  5. The number of man-days of active traffic police patrol cars.

Response

In accordance with section 1(1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Question 1

RTC fatalities within Cheshire: 2000 - 2008 (by quarters)

Quarter 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 Grand Total
Jan - Mar   17 13 13 15 16 16 17 10 117
Apr - Jun   22 12 26 16 19 19 8 14 136
Jul - Sep 17 18 18 12 15 19 14 12 15 140
Oct - Dec 16 13 28 23 22 25 16 11 19 173
Year Totals 33 70 71 74 68 79 65 48 58 566

Question 2 and 4

Totals for Active Fixed Speed Cameras 2000 - 2008 Quarterly

Year January - March April - June July - September October - December
2000 14 14 14 14
2001 17 17 18 18
2002 22 22 23 24
2003 23 23 24 32
2004 31 33 35 38
2005 40 41 40 40
2006 44 44 43 45
2007 45 46 47 47
2008 45 47 47 48

Days per Quarter of Active Deployment (Mobile Enforcement)

Year January - March April - June July - September October - December
2003 n/a 68 83 78
2004 74 59 63 75
2005 83 84 80 71
2006 85 80 79 83
2007 78 80 75 63
2008 62 53 67 74

Question 3

Speeding offences

Quarter 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Quarter 1 5533 6053 6104 6528 19975 9727 9544 9379 7210
Quarter 2 6596 6636 5177 17923 15424 13435 11862 10239 11846
Quarter 3  3887 4890 3569 11936 11441 11608 10830 9420 12781
Quarter 4 4737 5740 4052 11680 12965 10011 10495 10733 11805

Question 5

There is no information held.

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