Last year, the federal police recorded 10,1 million traffic violations in Belgium, a new record. Approximately 83% of all recorded traffic violations were speeding offenses.

However, the majority of these are minor violations, involving speeds of 0-10 kph over the limit. This trend is largely attributable to the fact that traffic enforcement in Belgium is almost entirely dominated by automated detection, such as average speed checks, fixed cameras, and ANPR.

It is striking that the numbers are rising much faster in Wallonia than in Flanders. Although this is likely also because Wallonia has significantly caught up with Flanders in recent years in average speed checks.

The vast majority was driving 0-10 kph over the speed limit

In 2025, 10,102,839 traffic violations were recorded in Belgium. That figure has more than doubled in roughly eight years. The sharp increase in the figures occurred between 2021 and 2022, a period when many cities, municipalities, and authorities began investing in automated detection systems.

In other words, millions of drivers did not suddenly start behaving recklessly on the road. This can also be deduced from a more detailed analysis of the more than 10 million traffic violations. Of these, 8,39 million were speeding violations and 1,71 million were other violations, but by far the largest group is the category of drivers who were 0-10 kph over the speed limit, namely 6,469,408.

Another 1,425,686 offenders were driving 11-20 kph over the limit, and 347,940 were driving 21-30 kph over the limit; however, high speeds are statistically a minority – 57,419 of the offenders were driving more than 40 kph over the limit.

The highest number of speeding violations was also recorded on the highway (2.7 million), followed by regional roads (3.3 million) and municipal roads (1.7 million).

Most violations throughout the day

When we look at violations by category, we see that they have remained stable and that, aside from speeding, the highest number of fines were issued for traffic code violations (620,239), stopping and parking (445,500), running traffic lights (111,126), and using a cell phone while driving (106,686).

Alcohol and drug use accounted for 48,426 and 13,755 violations, respectively.

Most violations are still recorded during the day/week (59,44%), followed by the day/weekend (28,65%). The night/weekend accounts for 6,1%, followed by the night/week (5,82%), while alcohol-related violations during the night/weekend account for nearly 40%.

Wallonia’s catch-up effort

Flanders also continues to outpace Wallonia and the Brussels Capital Region in terms of the number of traffic violations. In Flanders, 6,432,555 traffic violations were recorded in 2025, compared to 2,583,226 in Wallonia and 1,044,185 in the Brussels-Capital Region.

In Flanders, Antwerp leads the way with more than 2,2 million violations, followed by Flemish Brabant (1,4 million) and East Flanders (1,3 million). In Wallonia, Hainaut (more than 900,000) and Namur (more than 500,000) have the highest rates.

What is striking, however, is that the number of traffic violations in Wallonia has risen much more sharply than in Flanders. While the increase for Belgium is 9,96%, the figure for Wallonia is as high as +16,7%, compared to +4,5% for Flanders. However, Flanders has had a very dense network of speed enforcement for years, and Wallonia has caught up significantly in recent years.

+200,000 speeding violations in Brussels

Specifically in the Brussels-Capital Region, as many as 200,000 more speeding violations were recorded in 2025 than in 2024. With 164,064 speeding violations recorded in 2025, the Uccle/Watermaal-Bosvoorde/Auderghem area tops the Brussels rankings. It thus remains ahead of Brussels-Capital/Ixelles (150,805), Brussels-West (123,574), PolBruNo (104,674), Montgomery (98,359), and South (97,689).

The most violations were recorded on Fonsnylaan/Avenue Fonsny (more than 34,600 speeding violations), Kroonlaan/Avenue de la Couronne (more than 29,500), followed by Nieuwpoortlaan/Boulevard de Nieuport (27,800), the Hallepoort Tunnel/Tunnel de la Porte de Halle (nearly 25,000), Waversesteenweg/Chaussée de Wavre (24,166), Stallestraat/Rue de Stalle (19,891)Ninoofsesteenweg/Chaussée de Ninove and Waterloosesteenweg/Chaussée de Waterloo (both more than 15,400), Picardstraat/Rue Picard (14,798), and Keizer Karellaan/Avenue Charles-Quint(13,646).

The dense network of cameras and the implementation of 30 kph zones certainly contribute to the rise in these figures.