2021 Data

15/2/2023

Motoring offences: 2021

Data on fixed penalty notices, court proceedings, drug and drink driving offences, and breath tests for 2021.

Key points

Fixed penalty notices (FPNs)

• In 2021 a total of 74,400 FPNs were issued in Wales, a 17% increase compared to 2020 and similar to the number issued in 2019.
• Speed limit offences accounted for 83% of FPNs in 2021.
• Since 2012, the number of FPNs issued in Wales have seen an overall decrease from a high of 112,400.

Court proceedings

• 57,753 motoring offenders were prosecuted in Wales in 2021, a 27% increase compared to 2020 and 2% higher than in 2019.
• Collisions involving drink driving (2020 data).
• In 2020, an estimated 8% of all recorded collisions and 9% of all casualties in Wales involved one or more drivers impaired by alcohol.
• 14% of all fatal casualties in 2020 were estimated to be involved in alcohol related collisions.
• 8% of motorised vehicle drivers killed in Wales were found to have had a blood alcohol level over the legal limit.

Screening breath tests

• In 2021, 18,462 screening breath tests were carried out in Wales a reduction from 24,800 in 2020. In 2021, 2,900 of these tests (16%) were categorised as either ‘positive or refused’, compared to 3,600 (14%) in 2020.
• In 2021, there were 153 positive breath tests of drivers involved in collisions, a decrease of 17 (13%) compared with 2020.

20/7/2022

Statistical Bulletin: Reported Road Casualties 2021

Police recorded road accident and casualty numbers throughout most of 2020 were affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which saw restrictions on how, where and why people could travel within Wales. Traffic volume decreased considerably during 2020 in light of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic (a decrease of 23.4% compared to 2019). COVID-19 restrictions continued to impact travel in 2021, though to a lesser extent.

Key points

In 2021 there were 4,348 road casualties reported by police forces in Wales, an increase of 17% compared to 2020 but a decrease of 25% compared to 2019. Of these casualties:

• 1,011 (23%) were killed or seriously injured (KSI), an increase of 23%
  compared with 2020 but a decrease of 15% compared to 2019
• 3,337 (77%) had slight injuries, 16% more than the figure for 2020 but
  28% less than the figure for 2019.

29/6/2022

Police Recorded Road Accidents 2021

Police recorded road accident and casualty numbers throughout most of 2020 were affected by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which saw restrictions on how, where and why people could travel within Wales. There was continued impact in 2021.

Data on severity of injury and type of road user for 2021.

Key points

In 2021 police forces in Wales recorded a total of 3,288 road accidents, an increase of 416 (14.5%) compared to 2020 which was the lowest year on record.

These road accidents in 2021 resulted in 4,348 personal injuries. Of these:

• 86 people were killed
• 925 people were seriously injured
• 3,337 slight injuries were recorded.

During 2021, over half of all road accidents (53%) occurred on 30mph roads with the next highest proportion (25%) occurring on 60mph roads. Road sections with a 20mph speed limit had the lowest proportion, accounting for 3% of all accidents.

Looking at the long term trend, there has been an overall fall in personal injury road accidents recorded by police forces in Wales.

In recent years, the number of accidents resulting in fatalities or serious injury has been relatively stable, with the overall decline in accidents accounted for by a continued fall in ‘slight’ injury accidents.

2021 Data

15/2/2023

Troseddau moduro: 2021

Data am hysbysiadau cosb benodedig, achosion llys, troseddau cyffuriau ac yfed a gyrru, a phrofion anadl ar gyfer 2021.

Pwyntiau allweddol

Hysbysiadau cosb benodedig

• Yn 2021 dyfarnwyd cyfanswm o 74,400 o hysbysiadau cosb benodedig yng Nghymru, sy’n gynnydd o 17% o’i gymharu â 2020 ac yn debyg i’r nifer a ddyfarnwyd yn 2019.
• Troseddau yn ymwneud â therfynau cyflymder oedd yn gyfrifol am 83% o’r hysbysiadau cosb benodedig a ddyfarnwyd yn 2021.
• Ers 2012, mae nifer yr hysbysiadau cosb benodedig sydd wedi’u rhoi yng Nghymru wedi gostwng ar y cyfan o nifer uchel o 112,400.
  

Achosion llys

• Erlynwyd 57,753 o droseddwyr moduro yng Nghymru yn 2021, sy’n gynnydd o 27% o’i gymharu â 2020 ac sy’n 2% yn uwch na’r nifer yn 2019.

Damweiniau’n gysylltiedig ag yfed a gyrru (data 2020)

• Yn 2020 amcangyfrifwyd bod 8% o’r holl ddamweiniau a gafodd eu cofnodi a 9% o’r holl anafusion yng Nghymru yn cynnwys o leiaf un gyrrwr yr amharwyd arno gan alcohol.
• Amcangyfrifwyd bod 14% o’r holl anafusion angheuol yn 2020 yn rhan o gwrthdrawiadau yn ymwneud i alcohol.
• Cafwyd bod gan 18% o yrwyr cerbyd modur a laddwyd yng Nghymru lefel o alcohol yn eu gwaed dros y terfyn cyfreithiol.
  

Profion anadl sgrinio

• Yn 2021, cynhaliwyd 18,462 o brofion anadl yng Nghymru, sy’n ostyngiad o 24,800 yn 2020.
• Yn 2021, roedd 2,900 o’r profion hyn (16%) naill ai’n bositif, neu wedi cael eu gwrthod, o'i gymharu â 3,600 (14%) yn 2020.
• Yn 2021, cafodd 153 o yrwyr a oedd wedi cael damwain ganlyniad prawf anadl positif. Roedd hyn yn ostyngiad o 17 (13%) o’i gymharu â 2020.

29/6/2021

Damweiniau ffyrdd wedi’u cofnodi gan yr heddlu 2021

Cafodd pandemig y coronafeirws (COVID-19), â’i gyfyngiadau ar sut, ble a pham yr oedd pobl yn cael teithio yng Nghymru, effaith ar nifer y damweiniau a’r anafusion ffyrdd a gofnodwyd gan yr heddlu gydol y rhan fwyaf o 2020. Roedd yr effaith hon wedi parhau yn 2021.

Data am ddifrifoldeb yr anafiadau a'r math o ddefnyddiwr ffordd ar gyfer 2021.

Pwyntiau allweddol

Yn 2021 cofnododd heddluoedd yng Nghymru gyfanswm o 3,288 o ddamweiniau ffordd, cynnydd o 416 (14.5%) o'i gymharu â 2020, sef y flwyddyn isaf ar gofnod.

Arweiniodd y damweiniau ffordd hyn yn 2021 at 4,348 o anafiadau personol. O'r rhain:

• lladdwyd 86 o bobl
• anafwyd 925 o bobl yn ddifrifol
• chofnodwyd 3,337 o anafiadau mân.

Yn ystod 2021, digwyddodd dros hanner yr holl ddamweiniau ffordd (53%) ar ffyrdd 30mya gyda'r gyfran uchaf nesaf (25%) yn digwydd ar ffyrdd 60mya. Rhannau ffordd â therfyn cyflymder o 20mya oedd â'r gyfran isaf, gan gyfrif am 3% o'r holl ddamweiniau.

O edrych ar y duedd hirdymor, bu gostyngiad cyffredinol yn nifer y damweiniau ffordd lle cafwyd anafiadau personol a gofnodwyd gan heddluoedd yng Nghymru.