Some vacationers or passengers crossing the border bring not only pleasant memories of our beautiful country. Indeed, as we told you in Auto Plus magazine #1829, In 2022, 2.8 million drivers from the four corners of Europe will be registered in France.
Oddly enough, once again, residents of neighboring countries were mostly caught last year. Belgium took first place on the podium, followed by the Netherlands, then Germany. Representatives of these three countries are very present on our roads 39% of fines (speed or red light) sent by the administration to foreigners in 2022.
Remember that France has agreements with 19 members of the European Union to allow foreign drivers to bill for fines issued there.
Rating of the brightest foreign drivers
- Belgium: 442,509 reports, +43% year-on-year
- Netherlands: 358,444, +76%
- Germany: 295,397, +44%
- Spain: 278,069, +4%
- Italy: 243,181, + 42%
- Romania: 225,618, + 15%
- Switzerland: 176,265, +26.2%
- Poland: 173,370, + 29%
- Portugal: 76,926, – 0.1%
- Luxembourg: 72,306, +47%
- Great Britain: 59,836, +28.4%
- Lithuania: 39,450, + 35%
- Czech Republic: 25,659, +33%
- Austria: 12,495, +30%
- Hungary: 11,009, + 24%
- Sweden: 10,068, +99%
- Slovakia: 7,591, + 12%
- Bulgaria: 7158, – 11%
- Ireland: 4211, +34%
- Latvia: 3041, + 36%
- Denmark: 2,769, + 59%
- Greece: 2560, – 12%
- Estonia: 1,570, +51%
- Finland: 1056, +89%
- Andorra: 718, – 2.6%
- Slovenia: 611, – 3%
- Croatia: 606, +2%
- Monaco: 395, – 16.5%
- Cyprus: 373, +7%
- Malta: 317, +73%
- Other countries: 304,106, + 37%
Increases at all levels
With the exception of the Portuguese, all of our main neighbors were much brighter last year than they are in 2021. This trend is explained by the fact that tourism has started again after several difficult years due to the pandemic.
The prize for the number of outbreaks in relation to the population went to Luxembourgers, p one PV for 8.8 residents. Far behind we find the Belgians (one for every 25.8 inhabitants), the Netherlands (48.8) and Switzerland (49).
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Source: Auto Plus
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