2023-11-18 06:41:00
In the past, motorists were sometimes only flashed at speeds of 140 km/h, or there were quotas for fines. Last summer, the Minister of Justice at the time, Vincent Van Quickenborne (Open Vld), however, announced that fixed radars and section radars on motorways would only use a technical margin of up to 129 kilometers per hour.
Soon 50 additional radars on Walloon roads
Internal emails now show that the justice system and the police are going even further: mobile radars will soon also be more severe. “Thanks to the additional money released during the budget negotiations in October, we will be able to launch the road safety action plan from 2024, within the framework of which we will, among other things, remove tolerance margins and quotas for mobile speed cameras on the highways,” confirmed the spokesperson for the FPS Justice to the Flemish daily. “We want to increase the risks of being caught in the act, by increasing the number of fines. As we will have more staff, we will be able to cope with this additional work.”
In addition to road safety, revenue from fines also seems to be a major motivation for this toughening, according to internal mail to which Het Laatste Nieuws was able to access. Last year, traffic fines brought in at least 543 million euros for the state.
Only a small part of the fines collected goes to the Public Treasury, however, underlines the spokesperson for the FPS Justice. Three quarters of it goes to the road safety fund.
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