In the first six months of the year, more than 50,000 offences were recorded on the A4 motorway. Calculated over the year, this would represent a quarter of all offences nationwide, say MPs Mars di Bartolomeo and Yves Cruchten from the Luxembourg Socialist Workers’ Party (LSAP) in a recent parliamentary enquiry.
Even if failure to obey traffic lights “is not excusable”, most of the speeding offences recorded here are “very light” and, according to the MPs, committed on a wide, low-risk three-lane road where the maximum speed sign “is rather discreet”.
Finally, “the sign announcing the change in speed limit from 50 to 70 km/h is visible at the end of the route” and encourages motorists “to accelerate”, the MPs note.
In his response to the enquiry, Mobility Minister François Bausch rejected these arguments, issuing a reminder over two serious accidents with injuries that occurred at this location in 2018. Several school complexes are located nearby and given the number of pedestrians frequenting the area, the 50 km/h speed limit is, in his view, entirely appropriate.
As far as offences are concerned, in 99.98% of cases, drivers were found to have exceeded the speed limit by less than 10 km/h, resulting in a €49 fine.
