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If I asked you to guess the three most common motoring offenses, I’m sure you’d accurately predict speeding as being the most frequent offense. I wonder, however, if you realise just how common the offense is…

You might expect half or perhaps even the majority of motoring offenses to be for speeding. I wonder, however, if you’d believe a massive 85% of all convictions are for the crime of driving above the speed limit! By comparison, all other motoring offenses are quite rare!

Speeding was an easy answer; now consider the second most common motoring offense. You may suspect driving with a mobile phone, or broken break lights – but you’d be wrong. 9% of all convictions for motoring offenses are made up by…people driving through red lights! 9% sounds very small compared to the 85% that are for speeding, but it’s enough to make jumping traffic lights the second-most-common motoring offense.

Now, for the most worrying part of all. Given the number of car insurance adverts, you could be forgiven for thinking driving without insurance would be one of the most common motoring offensives. On the other hand, the terrifying car-crushing government adverts might lead you to think a large number of people are failing to tax their car. However, although these are fairly common offenses, the third most common motoring offense – making up 2% of all convictions – is the crime of drinking and driving.

There you have it; the three most common motoring offenses. Make sure you steer clear of them all.