Government of Jersey

Age of drivers in road traffic collisions (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by States of Jersey and published on 02 December 2016.

Request

Please advise of the reported Road Accidents involving a Motorised vehicle the numbers and ages of drivers in the following age brackets ...

1. 17 years to 25 years
2. 25 years to 40 years
3. 41 years to 65 years
4. 66 years to 70 years
5. 71 years to 80 years
6. Over 80 years

Of these statistics/numbers please advise in the over 70 years how many were to blame for the road traffic accident?

Response

The below figures show the age groups of those involved in road traffic collisions (RTCs) in Jersey in the last five years. It does not represent the number of RTCs as often more than one vehicle is involved. For RTC figures, please refer to the States of Jersey Police annual reports.

View the States of Jersey Police annual reports

RTC - driver/rider	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	Total
17-25 years	104	93	130	117	83	527
26-40 years	118	143	127	133	99	620
41-65 years	165	221	194	187	188	955
66-70 years	19	16	18	12	14	79
71-80 years	11	19	19	26	21	96
Over 80 years	8	13	10	9	11	51
Total	425	505	498	484	416	2,328

From the above figures, records for 2016 were individually examined and of the 32 drivers who were over the age of 70, 20 were prosecuted for offences of driving without due care and attention and in one case, causing injury while driving without due care and attention. Most cases were dealt with at parish halls.

The above figures can be further examined against the number of drivers licences held in each of the age categories. Driver and Vehicle Standards have provided the below figures.

Age group	Full	Provisional	Total
Below 17	3	216	219
17 years to 25 years	7,255	1,288	8,543
26 years to 40 years	19,356	700	20,056
41 years to 65 years	35126	271	35397
66 years to 70 years	4,973	5	4,978
71 years to 80 years	5,755	2	5,757
Over 80 years	3,669	1	3,670
Total	76,137	2,483	78,620