Children Illegally Travelling Without Car Seat/ Seatbelt
Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/25/007897/S
Version Date: 02/04/2025
The Performance & Analysis Department have provided the following information.
I want to know how many people have received fines for not restraining children properly whilst driving.
No information held.
This information will be held by the courts.
- How many motorists were caught for travelling with children illegally without a child car seat
• CCCJ Offence code RT88515 Drive motor vehicle seat belt fitted, with child over 3 but under 14, not wearing seat belt.
2. How many motorists were caught driving without the correct child car seat
• CCCJ Offence code RT88514 Drive motor vehicle with child under 3 not wearing rear seatbelt / using correct child seat.
I would like figures for 2022, 2023, 2024 and the start of 2025, broken down by month.
Data Processing:
Fixed Penalty data from PENTIP
COMBINED Notices January 2015 to February 2025
Filtered by date: January 1st 2022 to February 28th 2025
CCCJS OFFENCE CODE: RT88515 and RT88514
Data Limitations:
- March data is not yet available.
- Pentip data does not contain any person data, so we are unable to identify the age of the child involved.
- Please note that if a year or month is missing, there are no records for that time.
Data:
|
Month |
RT88514 |
RT88514 Total |
RT88515 |
RT88515 Total |
Total |
|||||
|
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
2025 |
2022 |
2023 |
2024 |
||||
|
January |
0 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
|
March |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
May |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
6 |
|
June |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
7 |
9 |
|
August |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
1 |
0 |
6 |
8 |
|
October |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
5 |
|
February |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
4 |
6 |
8 |
|
April |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
July |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
5 |
|
September |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
4 |
|
November |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
5 |
|
December |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
|
Total |
8 |
4 |
5 |
2 |
19 |
13 |
19 |
10 |
42 |
61 |