No more luck
In Belgium you can be lucky with a speed camera, because some poles are not switched on, or only flash when extreme speed limits are exceeded. However, that time will soon be over.
Speed offenders in Belgium will soon no longer have to hope that a speed camera will be turned off or the violation will be condoned. Belgium will no longer temporarily disable speed cameras and section checks along smaller roads next year or make them less strict, Belgian media report.
Speed cameras and section checks used to be regularly switched off to prevent the police from being inundated with speeding fines. Or they only flashed when driving extremely fast and let smaller offenders slip. In March 2020, during the first wave of corona infections, many speed cameras were turned off in parts of Belgium. This was also done at the time because of the workload of the police. The police had other things on their minds at the time due to corona.
Quotas and tolerance margins have already been reduced along highways and this is now also happening along provincial roads, the Ministry of Justice told Flemish newspapers, among others. The standard and The newspapaer. The small margin that should prevent a road user from becoming the victim of a measurement error will remain. More staff will be deployed to process the expected additional fines. Since speed checks along highways became permanent, the number of fines increased by 30 percent.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl