Road offences on the rise, mainly due to increase in speeding

The number of road traffic offences recorded in Belgium rose to over eight million in 2023, mainly due to speeding, according to new federal and local police statistics.The record has been systematically beaten year after year, RTBF reports, except in 2020 when the pandemic and associated shutdowns significantly reduced road traffic.Last year saw 8,423,308 breaches of the Highway Code, representing an increase of 10.6% compared with 2022. Speeding accounts for more than 80% of offences.“This phenomenon can be explained by the increasing automation of the recording and processing of this type of offence,” the federal police said, adding that…