The ONISR publishes in October 2023 the report of the offenses noted by the police in 2022, and their consequences on the license points. 30 million traffic violations have been recorded by national police forces agencies, ANTAI, and municipal police.
A new version of the report is available: the part on offences resulting from the PVe and automated control is reorganized according to the main accident factors and by department (France mainland and overseas departments).
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In 2022, 3,550 people were killed on France's roads (including overseas territories) (Observatoire National Interministériel de la Sécurité Routière - final data), a figure 1.5% higher than in 2019 but 3.6% lower than in 2017. This result should nevertheless be put into perspective with the halving of the number of fatalities between 2000 and 2010 and the 16.9% fall between 2010 and 2022. The reduction in the number of people killed on our roads is partly due to the enforcement work carried out by the forces of law and order (to which it is important to add the deployment of automated enforcement since 2003) combined with the demerit points system introduced in 1992.
In 2022, 30 million violations of the road traffic code will be recorded by the national police force (NP), the automated control system (AC) and the municipal police force (MP), more than in 2017 (+1.4%). They break down as follows:
876,439 offences (+22% on 2019, +47% on 2017) and 29.2 million fines (+18% on 2019, +0.5% on 2017). The fall in contraventions excluding dangerous parking since 2017 on the NP and AC side (20.2 million in 2022 compared with 20.9 million in 2017) is offset by the rise on the MP side (1.5 million in 2022 compared with 0.7 million in 2017).
56% of offences concern speeding, i.e. 16.9 million, including 240 offences.
7.4 million offences concern dangerous parking, i.e. 24.8% of all offences.
2.1 million administrative offences, or 6.8% of all offences. Since 2018, some of the offences for not having insurance or not having a driving licence have been dealt with by means of fixed penalty fines (AFD): 127,397 AFD for not having insurance, out of 206,190 offences, and 24,858 AFD for not having a driving licence, out of 147,713 offences.
1.7 million non-delict offences against the rules of the road (including 528,213 uses of mobile phones, 58,095 wearing of earphones).
825,112 non-criminal offences against the rules of priority, including 355,253 "red light" offences detected by automated enforcement systems. 191,096 offences for failing to stop at a red light and 153,687 offences for failing to obey a stop sign.
342,342 non-criminal offences for lack of user equipment, including 176,325 for not wearing a seatbelt, 43,309 for not wearing a helmet and 71,077 for not wearing gloves on motorised two-wheelers.
180,759 offences concerning the condition of vehicles.
158,682 offences for drink-driving, of which 118,980 were offences (75%).
Some offences are offences only. These include 189,397 hit-and-run offences after an accident (22% of offences), 117,351 drug-related offences (13% of offences), and 32,751 offences for refusing or obstructing a control (4% of offences).
Excluding municipal police forces, the total volume of offences recorded by the police, the national gendarmerie and the automated control system (CA) will be 22,495,036 offences in 2022, up 10.6% on 2021 but down 5.8% on 2017.
The municipal police recorded 7.6 million offences using the electronic minutes (PVe) system, of which 6.1 million concerned obstructed or dangerous parking.
16.5 million offences were recorded by the automated control system (AC), i.e. 1.9 million more than in 2021 but 0.5 million fewer than in 2017.
At 1 January 2023, the AC system comprised 3,531 fixed or moveable radars (including 638 at traffic lights, 71 at level crossings, 1,193 turrets and 340 autonomous "worksite" radars) as well as 999 mobile radars (on-board or "radar cars") operated by law enforcement agencies or outsourced. These radars record 76.6% of all traffic offences and 96.2% of all speeding offences.
The number of speeding offences recorded by AC will increase by 13.1%, with 16.2 million offences recorded in 2022 (compared with 14.3 million in 2021 and 13.6 million in 2017). 82% of these offences concern passenger vehicles. Contraventions relating to "red light running" (traffic lights or level crossings) recorded by AC totalled 355,253 (compared with 515,043 in 2017).
Document development context
Also, this document first of all draws up a report on the offences recorded in 2022 by the national police and gendarmerie forces and certain municipal police forces.
Data sources are changing. From now on, only data concerning class 5 offenses and contraventions are transmitted by the law enforcement departments: the General Directorate of the National Gendarmerie (DGGN), the Central Directorate of Republican Security Companies (DCCRS), the Central Directorate of Public Security (DCSP), the Paris Police Prefecture (PPP).
The data concerning the fines recorded via the electronic minutes or PVe (except class 5) and those relating to the automated control are provided by the National Agency for the Automated Processing of Offenses (ANTAI). Similarly, data on the fixed-rate fines for delictual offences introduced in 2018 are provided by ANTAI. This method enabled us to update the list of offences, at a more detailed level, and to present a summary of the offenses noted by certain municipal police via the PVe, according to exports provided by the ANTAI. In addition, certain analyzes have been developed: analyzes of the offenses detected by the automated control according to the type of vehicle; reports of offenses recorded by department, presented in cartographic form, replace maps previously produced on the withdrawal of points but based on the place of residence and not the place of the offence.
The analyzes on presumed perpetrators of fatal accidents (APAM) have been reduced to the only fields still specific to this particular monitoring (information on the number of points on the driving license and on any main offenses retained in the past), the national file of road traffic bodily accidents having strengthened the monitoring of people presumed responsible for accidents, fatal or not (see the analyzes in the 2021 Road Safety Report).
The figures on the demerit points were communicated by the National Office of Driving Rights, Delegation for Road Safety (DSR / ERPC).
The demerit point system in France was instituted by law n° 89-469 of July 10, 1989 relating to various provisions in terms of road safety and fines. It entered into force on July 1, 1992, when road insecurity caused more than 9,000 deaths each year. The license with points constitutes a privileged instrument of the system of prevention and fight against road insecurity. Decisions to withdraw points are recorded in the computer files of the National Driving License System (SNPC) regulatory application, placed under the authority of the Minister of the Interior (National Office for Driving Rights).
Data on road safety convictions and penalties were communicated to ONISR by the Ministry of Justice (Statistical Service).