Crimes of road rage or aggressive driving 2020 to 2024

25 March 2025

Request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 Ref No: FOI2025/01782 

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

For each calendar year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, could you tell me:

• The number of reported crimes which mentioned 'road rage' or 'aggressive driving' in the MO field of the crime report and the detailed crime type

For each calendar year 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, could you tell me:

• The number of road traffic accidents recorded with a contributing factor of 'aggressive driving' (code 601)

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.

Response: Following searches conducted within the Corporate Performance & Cameras; Tickets & Collisions Department of the Force please see our response below:

1a

*The below data is source by a 'ROAD RAGE / AGGRESSIVE DRIVING / DRIVING AGGRESSIVELY' word search in the Incident Summary. The crime text has not been read through.

Recorded Crime - Word search: ROAD RAGE / AGGRESSIVE DRIVING / DRIVING AGGRESSIVELY

Dates between: 1.1.2020 - 31.12.2024

2a.

Our current collision system, records details of road traffic collisions, involving human death or personal injury which occurred on the public highway which were reported to the Police within 30 days of occurrence, and in which one or more vehicles are involved, in accordance with Department for Transport STATS 20 instructions. For more details visit:

• Road Safety Statistics: Guidance

Verified data is also available from the Bedfordshire Councils.

All data provided by Bedfordshire Police is unvalidated and subject to change.

Contributory Factors or Road Safety Factors reflect the reporting person’s opinion at the time of reporting and may not be the result of extensive investigation.

Up to six can be recorded against a collision; not all collisions have contributory factors recorded.

Number of injury collisions which have a contributory factor or road safety factor which include aggressive driving:

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.