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Motor Vehicles: Lighting

Asked by Sir John HayesConservativeMinistry of JusticeTabled Answered 17 June 2025UIN 58149

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, how many people have been prosecuted for driving with excessively bright lights in the last ten years.

Answered by Sarah Sackman

The Ministry of Justice publishes data on prosecutions for a wide range of offences including motoring offences at criminal courts in England and Wales in the Outcomes by Offences data tool, that can be downloaded from the Criminal Justice Statistics landing page here: Criminal Justice Statistics.

However, the data do not identify cases as a result of illegally tinted windows, excessively bright lights, or excessively noisy exhausts.

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