Drivers make increasing use of dashcam footage

Commercial vehicle drivers are increasingly using dashcam footage to report incidents of bad driving. Consequently, the number of video reports to UK police forces received via the National Dash Cam Safety Portal (NDCSP) is set to increase by almost a third (31%) this year.

Throughout 2024, there has been an increase in the number of videos submitted through the portal, with 24,000 submissions by the end of June. However, reports of dangerous driving tend to spike over summer, with June 2023 taking the title of the most uploads in a single month, with May and July also making the top five.

Year-to-date, the top five regions processing the most uploads were the West Midlands, West Mercia, Northumberland, Surrey and South Yorkshire. These five regions have already received more than 18,000 submissions in 2024, more than the total number submitted across the UK in the whole of 2021.

Five years since its launch, the NDCSP, in partnership with Egress – a Government-tier security data hosting specialist, responsible for developing and delivering the platform’s technology – has processed more than 135,000 dangerous driving clips, saving an estimated 123 years of police time.

The platform, which was built to allow motorists to quickly and securely upload footage of dangerous driving to the relevant police force, now works with every police force in England. Nextbase is working to help it cover the whole of the UK in future.

Bryn Brooker, head of road safety at Nextbase, said:

With more than 135,000 uploads to the portal and another sharp increase in usage this year, the need for technological solutions to improve road safety is clear. We are pleased to see that almost all forces across England and Wales now accept video evidence in this way, making it easier to take dangerous drivers off the road, something that has undoubtedly saved lives.

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