Why you often see cars speeding through the speed check

‘Hey! Fine’, you may have heard yourself yell or think in the car when someone flew past you too fast in the speed check. But not everyone who overtakes you with a speed difference will actually get a fine at home. And no, they are not unremarkable police cars. It is best to look up the margins in the trajectory control.

Especially if you neatly drive 100 km/h on the counter, then you do not drive 100 km/h in practice. Every car has a small deviation, so often you drive a little slower. In our experience, the odometer deviation in modern cars is quite small, but somewhat older cars (for example, fifteen years old) the deviation can be quite significant. Especially if there are other wheels underneath. Even 10 percent.

But even if you drive at 100 km/h on the GPS, you can still be overtaken. These people are not necessarily fined either. On the highway, the police maintain a lower limit for fines. At 100 you only get a speeding fine at 104 km/h. At 120 that is 124 and since this year, the lower limit is at 130 also 134 km/h.

Here comes the counter deviation of your car again

And then you have a 3 percent measurement correction for speeds above 100 km/h. We advise against it, of course, but in practice you can drive through the speed checks at 106 km/h on the GPS during the day without fines. So if your car has a odometer deviation, those cars will pass with 115 km/h on your counter.

Also read: Route control on the A2 made bigger

The route controls between the exit and the driveway

In the past, people drove even faster between the speed checks on the A2. At that time, there was no measurement between the exit and the driveway. There, drivers in a hurry saw an opportunity to make up for some time. Nowadays, the highway from Utrecht to Amsterdam is one big measurement from the point where the route control panel is located.