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Vehicle speed compliance statistics: data tables (SPE)

Data about vehicle speed compliance on roads in Great Britain, produced by Department for Transport.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Transport
Published:
5 November 2018
Last updated:
25 June 2025
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  1. Data tables for vehicle speed compliance statistics for Great Britain: 2024 published.

  2. Data tables updated for the latest vehicle speed compliance statistics report for the year 2023.

  3. Data tables updated for the 2022 annual report.

  4. Data tables updated for the 2021 annual report.

  5. Data tables updated for the 2020 annual report. Percentage of cars exceeding the speed limit by road type data table added.

  6. Data tables updated for the 2019 annual report.

  7. Data tables updated for the 2018 annual report. Table for percentage of cars exceeding the speed limit on roads with free flowing conditions added to the dataset.

  8. First published.

Accessibility of tables

The department is currently working to make our tables accessible for our users. The data tables for these statistics are now accessible.

We would welcome any feedback on the accessibility of our tables, please email vehicle speed compliance statistics.

Vehicle speed compliance (SPE01)

SPE0101: Percentage of vehicles exceeding the speed limit by road type and vehicle type in Great Britain (ODS, 24.9 KB)

SPE0102: Free flow vehicle speeds by road type and vehicle type in Great Britain (ODS, 83.5 KB)

SPE0103: Percentage of vehicles exceeding the speed limit by hour of day on roads with free flowing conditions in Great Britain (ODS, 18.1 KB)

SPE0104: Percentage of vehicles exceeding the speed limit by day of the week on roads with free flowing conditions in Great Britain (ODS, 10.2 KB)

SPE0105: Time difference between vehicles and the vehicle behind in Great Britain (ODS, 9.67 KB)

Speeding offences and reported accidents involving speeding (SPE02)

SPE0201: Motor vehicle offences relating to exceeding the speed limit (ODS, 10.4 KB)

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