Fines issued for motoring offences

22 April 2025

Request under the freedom of information act 2000 ref no's: FOI2025/02575

I write in connection with your request for information received on 22nd March.  I note you seek access to the following information:

I would like to know the number of times action under the law (including the issue of fines) has been taken in cases of the following:

1) Riding a privately owned e-scooter in a public place such as on a public road.

2) Littering.

3) While driving a motor vehicle, being stationary on a yellow box junction.

4) Using a mobile phone while at the wheel of a motor vehicle.

5) The use of non-standard format vehicle number plates, ie ROB1N instead of ROB 1N.

Please supply this information for the most recent 12-month period for which you have available statistics and also for the equivalent 12-month period before that.

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 Bedfordshire Police Force please see our response below.

1. No legislation in place

2. Littering enforcement is the responsibility of the Local Authority.

3. The offence, “Motor vehicle fail to comply with a non endorsable traffic sign”, which covers stopping in a box junction also covers other actions, so we are unable to say whether a ticket was issued due to a box junction or one of the other behaviours covered.

4: 2023: 204

    2024: 167

5: falls under these offences:

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.