{"id":9433,"date":"2020-01-13T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=9433"},"modified":"2020-01-13T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T12:57:20","slug":"speeding-accounts-for-84-percent-of-motoring-offences-in-england-and-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/speeding-accounts-for-84-percent-of-motoring-offences-in-england-and-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding accounts for 84 percent of motoring offences in England and Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2.4 million speeding offences were detected across England and Wales in 2018-19, according to latest figures.<\/p>\n<p>With a total of 2.84 million motoring offences across the two countries, speeding accounted for 84 percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere limits are properly signposted and clearly feel right for the road in question then motorists have no excuse for going faster,\u201d said Steve Gooding from the RAC Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means highway authorities also have a responsibility to make sure the limits they set are appropriate and to avoid instances where the limit repeatedly \u2018bounces\u2019 up and down along a single stretch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The analysis \u2013 based on Home Office data \u2013 showed that West Yorkshire topped the list with 181,867 people caught speeding. Second was Avon and Somerset (159,210) followed by the Metropolitan Police, including City of London (157,494).<\/p>\n<p>At the other end of the scale Wiltshire Constabulary caught only 807 people speeding, Cleveland caught 11,937 and Derbyshire 12,256. Wiltshire turned off its speed cameras in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>There were various outcomes for motorists stopped for speeding:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>44 percent resulted in the offender being sent on a speed awareness course<\/li>\n<li>34 percent attracted fixed penalty notices (FPNs)<\/li>\n<li>12 percent were later cancelled<\/li>\n<li>10 percent resulted in court action<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 2.4 million speeding offences were detected across England and Wales in 2018-19, according to latest figures. With a total of 2.84 million motoring offences across the two countries, speeding accounted for 84 percent. \u201cWhere limits are properly signposted and clearly feel right for the road in question then motorists have no excuse for going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}