An app that warns you and a device that picks up radar emissions are legally two different things. In four of the five countries we cover, that distinction is what decides the answer.
Notes from the road
How enforcement works, what a fine really costs, and where the rules are not what people assume.
Blog — Leopol
The four kinds of check on Belgian roads, and what each one actually measures
A fixed camera, an average-speed zone, a red-light camera and a mobile check do four different things. The difference decides how you should react to each.
What a speeding fine costs in Belgium — and when it stops being a fine
Not every offence works the same way. Where you were driving decides how fast the amount climbs, and there is a threshold above which it goes to court instead.
Average-speed zones explained: why braking at the camera achieves nothing
An average-speed zone measures your speed across a whole stretch of road, not at a single point. That changes how you have to treat it.
