A speed camera located on the Antwerp Orbital Motorway caught a record number of motorist breaking the speed limit during the first 6 months of last year. The camera that is located in the Berchem district of Antwerp caught around 65,000 speeding drivers. The errant motorists were issued with speeding fines.
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Antwerp Orbital Motorway speed camera caught 65,000 speeding motorists in just 6 months
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The figures for the camera that is located on the northbound carriageway of the Antwerp Orbital at Berchem, were released by the Federal Police on Tuesday morning. They constitute a new record. With 64,444 drivers having been caught speeding by the camera in just 6 months, a speeding fine was issued on average every 4 minutes.
VRT News’ traffic editor Hajo Beeckman explains that "That is the busiest stretch of motorway in the whole of Belgium. It is where traffic from Ghent (East Flanders) and the Netherlands converges with traffic from the E19 and the E313 motorways”.
Tighter checks
The Flemish Highways and Traffic Agency is soon to tighten is checks on motorists’ speed on the Antwerp Orbital with the introduction of an APNR system on the section of the motorway around Berchem.
The previous record for speed cameras in Flanders was set in 2022 by a camera the entrace to the Craeybeckx Tunnel on the Antwerp-bound carriageway of the E19. The speed camera there caught around 60,000 drivers speeding in 6 months.