The number of offences for driving without proper control of the vehicle from 2022 to 2024

29 April 2025

Our Ref:        FOI2025/02645                                                                 

REQUEST UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 Ref No: FOI2025/02645     

I write in connection with your request for information received on 25 March 2025.  I note you seek access to the following information:

Request

relating to the offence of driving without proper control of the vehicle (commonly associated with offence code CD10).

Please provide data for the last three calendar years: 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a monthly breakdown where possible.

Specifically, I would like to request the following:

Q1. The total number of cautions issued under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.

Q2. The total number of fixed penalties issued under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.

Q3. The total number of prosecutions initiated under the CD10 offence, broken down by month and year.

Q4. A full list or breakdown of all offences recorded under CD10 during this period.

Q5. Where available, any accompanying officer notes, incident descriptors, or free-text fields associated with CD10 offences.

Q6. If possible, please indicate whether any of the CD10 offences were related to driving with pets in the vehicle (e.g. where the presence or behaviour of a pet may have contributed to the lack of control). This could include any relevant details recorded in officer notes or free-text fields.

Q7. Please indicate the number of fines issued under the CD10 offence during each period and where held, the total revenue generated from these fines, broken down by each month of each calendar year.

Response

***CLARIFICATION REC'D***

I would like to provide the following clarifications to assist with processing:

Offence Scope

Please note that I am requesting information specifically and solely related to the CD10 offence code, which refers to driving without due care and attention.

Fixed Penalty Notices / Conditional Offers (Q2)

If your force does not issue Fixed Penalty Notices but instead issues conditional offers (comprising a fine and points on the licence), please confirm this within your response and include these figures under Q2.

Prosecutions Initiated (Q3)

For Q3, I am seeking data on individuals who were referred for court prosecution under CD10, regardless of whether a conviction followed. If available, please also include a breakdown showing how many of those referrals resulted in conviction.

If only one of these figures is held, please provide what is available and indicate what the figure represents.

I am required by the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (The Act) to handle all requests in a manner that is blind to the identity of the requestor. Any information released in response to a request is regarded as being published and therefore, in the public domain without caveat.

Following enquiries within the Hertfordshire Constabulary, please see our response below.

1. Do not hold

2. Number of Traffic Offence Reports issued:

3. Number of those TORs sent to court:

4. CD10 covers -

Drive a vehicle without due care and attention

5. The system does not record the behaviour that led to the ticket being issued

6. The system does not record the behaviour that led to the ticket being issued

7. Fines are paid to HMCTS Fixed Penalty Office not to the police. Due Care offences may be disposed of by up to three options: retraining course, points and a fine or court.

Number of fines paid:

The numerical data presented in this response is an un-audited snapshot of un-published data sourced from "live" systems and is subject to the interpretation of the original request by the individual extracting the data.

Should you have any further enquiries concerning this matter please do not hesitate to contact me quoting the above reference number.

Yours sincerely
Information Rights

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