In 2024, Luxembourg’s speed cameras recorded 209,583 “minor speeding offences”, according to a parliamentary reply from interior minister Léon Gloden. This figure is up on 2023, when 181,565 “minor” speeding tickets were issued.

The definition of minor in this case is people fined for breaking the speed limit by 5 km/h or less, the minister wrote in response to the question from MP Jeff Engelen, although this does include a margin of error.

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Fixed cameras generated 169,457 speeding fines in Luxembourg in 2024 – 53,277 of which were for exceeding the speed limit by just 1 km/h. This was followed by 42,917 tickets for 2 km/h, 31,935 for 3 km/h, 24,249 for 4 km/h and 17,079 for 5 km/h.

Section radars recorded 40,126 offences over the year: 14,705 tickets for 1 km/h speeders, 9,290 for 2 km/h, 6,918 for 3 km/h, 5,190 for 4 km/h and 4,023 for 5 km/h.

Section radars measure the average speed over a stretch of road. They are in operation in several locations in the country, such as Waldhof, on the way to Junglinster, and the Markusberg tunnel.

Margin of error

In 2023, fixed speed cameras recorded 137,546 offences for speeding between 1 and 5 km/h. Of these, 42,303 were for exceeding the speed limit by just 1 km/h. Section speed cameras recorded 44,019 offences, including 15,695 for 1 km/h.

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Under the current law, a margin of error is deducted from the speed measured by the radar. When driving up to 100 km/h, cameras automatically deduct 3 km/h from the speed they think a vehicle is travelling. This means that someone fined for travelling 1 km/h too fast might actually have been 4 km/h over the limit, according to the camera. Over 100 km/h this changes to 3% of the speed.

The fine for speeding between 1 and 5 km/h, whether inside or outside built-up areas, is €49. No points are deducted from drivers’ licences if their speeding offence is less than 15 km/h over the limit.

(This article was published by Virgule. Machine translated, with editing and adaptation by Alex Stevensson.)