London Vision Zero Enforcement Dashboard—Two Years On

AVZ Blog – 15th April 2025

Transparency is important. Without it, you do not know what is happening and that includes what to criticise or congratulate. And transparency is especially needed with traffic law enforcement as it is often lacking. Whilst the Home Office publishes crime statistics on a monthly basis and at a local level, these numbers do not include the crimes that are most likely to kill or injure you, i.e. road crime.

Instead, the Home Office reports just once a year on motoring offences –this is usually at the end of October but it does slip. So, communities have to wait for almost a year if not longer to find out what happened in the previous year. The Ministry of Justice reports twice a year with court statistics but these only cover that one out of ten motoring offences that are sanctioned out of court.

It was great then when the London Vision Zero Enforcement Dashboard (LVZED) was launched in March 2023. In our new briefing, AVZ summarises what the statistics have shown, including the rise in how speeding offences have come to dominate traffic law enforcement in London. It also shows a significant decrease over the last two years in careless driving (-34%) and use of mobile phone whilst driving (-44%). These are worrying trends. It also reveals the low numbers of public reported road crime and these even include advisory letters.

AVZ is calling for all offences to be reported by speed limit. Our recent London Speed enforcement briefing highlighted how many more reported Killed and Seriously Injured casualties were occurring on 20 and 30 mph roads, much more than the share of speed enforcement which was occurring there. We fear this may be the same with the detection of other offences.

This briefing (below) also highlights how the LVZED is still missing data by borough (as is published with other crime). Borough data has been long promised (and used to be provided many years ago) but it is still missing from the LVZED.

Read our briefing and note our calls. We need even better transparency and enforcement where it matters—on 20 and 30 mph roads and support for reporting by the public.