The ONISR publishes in October 2024 the report of the offenses noted by the police in 2023, and their consequences on the license points. 30,1 million traffic violations have been recorded by national police forces agencies, ANTAI, and municipal police.
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In 2023, 3,398 people were killed on France's roads (including overseas territories) (French Road Safety Observatory - final data). This figure is 4.3% lower than in 2022, but only 2.9% lower than in 2019. 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 enforcement activity combined with the points-based driving licence introduced in 1992.
In 2023, 30.1 million breaches of the highway 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:
894,712 offences (+2.1% compared with 2022, +50.2% compared with 2017) and 29.2 million fines (stable compared with 2022, +0.5% compared with 2017). Contraventions excluding dangerous parking on the NP and AC side have been falling since 2017 (20.3 M in 2023 compared with 20.9 M in 2017), unlike those recorded by the MP, which have been rising sharply since 20127 (1.6 M in 2023 compared with 0.7 M in 2017).
57% of offences concern speeding, i.e. 17.2 million offences, including 177 délits.
7.3 million offences concerned dangerous parking, i.e. 24.2% of all offences.
2.0 million administrative offences, or 6.6% of all offences. Since 2018, part of the offences for not having insurance or for not having a driving licence have been dealt with by means of fixed penalty fines (AFD): 152,255 AFD for not having insurance, out of a total of 243,263 offences, and 28,888 AFD for not having a driving licence, out of a total of 141,302 offences.
1.8 million non-criminal offences against the rules of the road (including 555,146 for using mobile phones and 57,461 for wearing earphones).
774,892 non-criminal offences against the rules of priority, including 343,734 "red light" offences detected by automated enforcement, 184,341 red light running offences not detected by automated enforcement and 155,179 offences for failing to obey stop signs.
295,564 non-criminal offences for failure to provide user equipment, including 158,590 for not wearing a seatbelt, 35,000 for not wearing a helmet and 60,171 for not wearing gloves on motorised two-wheelers.
168,533 offences concerning the condition of vehicles.
168,520 offences for drink-driving, of which 112,648 were misdemeanours (75%). Of the 8.1 million tests carried out, 3.3% were positive.
Some offences are simply misdemeanours. These include 174,600 hit-and-run offences after an accident (+1.4% compared with 2017), and 126,828 drug-related offences (+8.1% compared with 2022). Of the almost 1 million drug tests carried out in 2023, 13.7% were positive. 27,815 offences were recorded for refusing and obstructing a control (-0.5% compared with 2017).
Excluding municipal police forces, the overall volume of offences recorded by the police, the national gendarmerie and the automated enforcement system (AC) is 22.5 million offences in 2023, a slight increase of 0.2% compared with 2022 but a decrease of 5.6% compared with 2017.
The municipal police recorded 7.6 million offences using the Procès-Verbal électronique (PVe) system, of which 6.1 million concerned obstructed or dangerous parking.
16.8 million offences were recorded by the automated control system (AC), i.e. 0.3 million more offences than in 2022 but 0.2 million fewer than in 2017.
At 1 January 2024, the AC system will comprise 3,573 fixed or mobile radars (including 631 at traffic lights, 71 at level crossings, 1,362 turrets and 330 autonomous "worksite" radars) and 225 mobile radars (on-board or "radar cars") operated by the police or outsourced. Offences recorded by automatic speed cameras account for 78.1% of all traffic offences (excluding major traffic offences) and 96.1% of all speeding offences.
The number of speeding offences recorded by CCTV will increase by 1.8%, with 16.5 million offences recorded in 2023 (compared with 16.2 million in 2022 and 16.6 million in 2017). 81% of these offences concern passenger vehicles. Contraventions relating to "red light running" (traffic lights or level crossings) recorded by CA totalled 343,734 (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).