© picture alliance / CHROMORANGE | Udo Herrmann
Those who will soon be traveling to their vacation destination via Belgium had better pay close attention to the speedometer on their dashboard: the number of traffic fines for speeding has risen sharply in recent years. One traffic camera accounted for 8 million euros in fines.
According to new figures from the Belgian Federal Police, exactly 10,060,037 traffic violations were recorded by 2025. This means a doubling in five years. The biggest increase occurs for speeding violations: it amounts to some 8.4 million per year, i.e. an average of some 23,000 fines per day.
One specific speed camera stands out from all the figures: a pole in the median strip along the Antwerp Ring, near Deurne, in the direction of the Netherlands: last year the police issued 116,000 fines to motorists for driving too fast, an average of 13 motorists per hour. The gross revenue from fines for that pole? A whopping 8 million euros.
According to the latest statistics, the stricter controls on speed did not miss their target: the number of traffic fatalities fell from 640 a decade ago to 445 in 2025. It's the ambition of all authorities in Belgium to record zero traffic deaths by 2050.
To achieve that goal, streets will be given a better layout, authorities will ensure that cars become safer and more speed checks are being carried out. Remarkably, Belgium has a wide margin for fines when a driver is caught speeding by a speed camera: on a freeway with a speed limit of 120 kilometers per hour, for example, a speed camera is only issued at 129 kilometers per hour.
Illustration picture: © picture alliance / CHROMORANGE | Udo Herrmann