Nearly 3,000 prosecutions for motoring offences have been dealt with by the courts in the last five years.

A total of 2,862 cases were brought before the courts, with only 14 not guilty verdicts in that time.

In the last full calendar year, 2017, there were 671 motoring offences. Of these, six ended up with not guilty verdicts.

So far this year, until the end of September, there were 536 cases, with two not guilty verdicts.

All the not guilty verdicts of the past five years were handed down in the summary courts.

Of the cases that were dealt with in the higher Court of General Gaol Delivery, they either had guilty pleas or resulted in guilty verdicts after a trial.

The figures were given in Tynwald by Attorney General John Quinn, in response to a question tabled by Jason Moorhouse (Arbory, Castletown and Malew).

Mr Quinn rejected a suggestion the data raised questions about an individual’s chance of being found not guilty.