Road traffic incidents and violations (FOI)

Request

The purpose of this request is to understand the volume of incidents involving drivers and vulnerable road users as well as the volume of other traffic violations in order to ascertain the number of charges made and convictions obtained over the past 10 years.

A

Please provide a detailed breakdown of RTC’s (Road Traffic Collisions) over the past 10 years involving motor bikes, cars, busses, or lorries (collectively "drivers") where there was injury or damage to pedestrians / runners, cyclists and or riders (collectively "non-drivers").

Numbers should also be broken down by age (16 or under, 17 to 65, over 65).

For each year provide:

• how many incidents in each category (by year, type, age and so on)

• in how many were major injuries involving hospitalization (Accident and Emergency) of either driver and / or non-driver

• how many drivers were charged (by type of offence for example dangerous or careless driving)

• how many drivers were not charged (and why for example insufficient evidence)

• how many non-drivers were charged (and why)

• how many non-drivers were not charged

• for each of those charged how many of these went to court and how many resulted in prosecution

• for those prosecuted what were the fines / sentences handed down

B

Detailed breakdown of Road Traffic offences over the past 10 years. Excluding RTC’s involving cyclists, pedestrians and horses.

Please break down by class of offence for example speeding, driving under the influence (drink or drugs), defective vehicle, RTC's (excluding as above), failure to report.

Again, numbers should also be broken down by age (16 or under, 17 - 65, over 65).

For each year:

• how many incidents in each category to which police were called to (by year, type, age and so on)

• how many drivers were charged

• how many drivers were not charged (and why for example insufficient evidence)

• for each of those charged how many of these went to court and how many resulted in prosecution

• for those prosecuted what were the fines / sentences handed down

Response

A and B

To complete either question A or B, in isolation, would exceed the time permitted under the Freedom of information (Cost) (Jersey) Regulations 2014.

To retrieve the detail of information requested would require a full examination of each Road Traffic Collision (RTC) report. Based on a ‘conservative’ 10 minutes to research each report, a maximum of 75 reports could be examined in the 12.5 hours permitted in the regulations.

The States of Jersey police have 3275 RTC’s recorded since January 2010 with at least one casualty reported.

In addition, there are over 25,000 offences under the Road Traffic (Jersey) Law 1956, alone, recorded on police systems.

It is therefore not possible to answer either question in the time permitted.

The States of Jersey Police would suggest the requestor engage with the States Road Safety Officer who may be able to provide some general Island statistical information that may be of interest.

Article applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

(1) A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

Regulation 2 (1) of the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014 allows an authority to refuse a request for information where the estimated cost of dealing with the request would exceed the specified amount of the cost limit of £500. This is the estimated cost of one person spending 12.5 working hours in determining whether the department holds the information, locating, retrieving and extracting the information.