A speed camera on the Antwerp Ring Road caught a record number of vehicles driving over the speed limit in the first half of 2023: some 65,000 speeding drivers were fined.
Checks were carried out on the ring road in Berchem for drivers travelling in the direction of the Netherlands, with the figures having been published on Tuesday by the federal police.
A new record was set after authorities worked out that they had fined one speeding driver every four minutes, with a total of 64,444 drivers fined on the spot.
"That is the busiest stretch of motorway in the whole of Belgium. It is where traffic from Ghent and the Netherlands meet, as well as drivers from the E19 and the E313 motorways," said VRT traffic expert Hajo Beeckman.
Of a total of nearly 65,000 drivers, some 6,300 were charged for not complying with a 70 or 90 km/h speed limit, De Standaard reports.
Soon, checks on that part of the Antwerp Ring Road will become stricter: the Agency for Roads and Traffic announced in March that an average-speed check will be set up near Berchem, to check drivers' speed over a longer distance.
The previous record was for the speed cameras at the Craeybeckxtunnel towards Antwerp. In 2022, the speed cameras there caught about 60,000 drivers every six months.
