FOI 6477-25 Towcester Road Blisworth

Request to Northamptonshire Police:

1. How many reported accidents have occured (and please provide the dates of each of those accidents) in the period 1 January 2015 to date on
a. Towcester Road between the junction with High Street in Blisworth and the end of the 30mph speed restriction (the 30mph restriction); and
b. Towcester Road between the junction with the A43 and the start of the 30 mph restriction?

2. You regularly have a mobile speed camera on the Towcester Road about 150 metres up from the the junction with the High Street in Blisworth (the Blisworth mobile speed camera). Please, for each calendar year from and including 2015 to and including 2025 to date, confirm how many motorists have been caught speeding by the Blisworth mobile speed camera
a. exiting the village of Blisworth
b. entering the village of Blisworth.

3. For each calendar year from and including 2015 to and including 2025 to date how much has been levied in fines by the Blisworth mobile speed camera.

Response:

1. You don't need to report a collision to the police if you've exchanged details, nobody was injured and there are no allegations of driving offences.
You must report the collision to the police if you were unable to exchange details at the scene, if anyone was injured, or if you suspect that the other person may have committed a driving offence.

Data is only held from 2020. Searches were conducted within Northamptonshire Police Road Traffic Collisions team to locate the information and I can now confirm that Northamptonshire Police does not hold a record of any attended Road Traffic Collisions at that location.

2. I have to advise you that Northamptonshire Police is not obliged to provide this information you have requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Please take this letter as a Refusal Notice to this particular request.

Section 17 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 requires Northamptonshire Police, when refusing to provide such information (because the information is exempt within the provisions of the Act) is required to provide you, the applicant, with a Notice which:

a) states the fact that an exemption has been applied
b) specifies the exemption in question, and
c) states why the exemption applies (if that would not otherwise be apparent)

The statutory exemption applicable to the information not disclosed is as follows:

Section 21 - Information reasonably accessible by other means

This is an Absolute Class Based Exemption and is therefore not subject to a harm or public interest test.

The information you require is readily available from the Northamptonshire Police website. Please see the following link below:

Freedom of Information - Northamptonshire Police Public Access System - Speeding/Redlight Tickets

The files are split into offence data and concluded / disposal data. The disposal data will not be available until 6 months after the offence data to allow for the offences to complete.

3. All monies for speeding penalties are paid to HM Treasury rather than individual police forces. We are unable to provide information on the amount paid to HM Treasury as a percentage of cases are referred for prosecution through the courts system. This may be because the fine was not paid or because the driver elected to have a court hearing. Details of any fines issued following the defendants being found guilty in these cases is held by His Majesty’s Courts and Tribunal Service (HMCTS) All of the money of the fine is paid to HMCTS. A speeding fine is £100 plus 3 points. Northamptonshire Police do not receive any monies for driver’s eligible for the Speed Awareness Course, the course fee is taken by the course provider.