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Criminal History Common Among Repeat High-range Speeders: QUT

Drivers caught repeatedly exceeding speed limits in the high-range category are more likely to have a criminal history away from the roads, a new study has found. Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Centre for Accident Research and Road S


Drivers caught repeatedly exceeding speed limits in the high-range category are more likely to have a criminal history away from the roads, a new study has found.

Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety (CARRS-Q) has found more than 55 percent of repeat high-range speeding offenders have a criminal history in other areas.

Researchers aimed to profile Queensland’s repeat speeding offenders, and co-author, Dr Judy Fleiter, said the study considered criminal histories, personal characteristics, traffic offences and crash history of high-range speeding offenders - and was the first of its kind.

"We found that more than half of those drivers caught multiple times for exceeding the speed limit by more than 30km/h had a criminal history and were significantly more likely to have committed drug and property offences compared to all other drivers caught speeding," Dr Fleiter said.

"From a sample of 1000 speeding offenders we found 55.2 percent of repeat high-range offenders had a criminal history, compared to 21 per cent of other speeding offenders and seven per cent of low-range speeding offenders.”

The sample group was split into three categories from data over the last seven years: those caught committing at least two offences at more than 30km/h over the limit, those caught committing one low-range speeding offence and the rest who had committed at least one mid-range offence without exceeding the limit by more than 30km/h.

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