{"id":21240,"date":"2026-05-08T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/verkeersrechtbank-versus-politierechtbank\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:14:07","slug":"traffic-court-versus-police-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/traffic-court-versus-police-court\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a traffic court and how is it different from the police court?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people confuse the terms \u201ctraffic court\u201d and \u201cpolice court.\u201d In Belgium, there is no separate traffic court - it is the police court that has jurisdiction over most traffic cases. Novex Lawyers clarifies.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Police court as traffic judge<\/h2><p>The police court is the competent court for traffic offenses in Belgium. It handles all road traffic law violations, from speed to alcohol, drugs, hit-and-run and driving without a license.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When does a traffic case NOT go to police court?<\/h2><p>For serious offenses - such as traffic accidents involving deaths or serious injuries, or cumulative crimes - the case goes to the correctional court. This is a higher criminal court with harsher penalties.<\/p><p><strong>Novex Lawyers: 048 499 22 72<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/lawyer-traffic-law\/\">Traffic Lawyer Brussels<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/contact\/\">Contact Novex Lawyers<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p><strong>Call: <a href=\"tel:+32484992272\">048 499 22 72<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:asfour@novexadvocaten.be\">asfour@novexadvocaten.be<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people confuse the terms \u201ctraffic court\u201d and \u201cpolice court.\u201d In Belgium, there is no separate traffic court - it is the police court that has jurisdiction over most traffic cases. Novex Lawyers clarifies. The police court as traffic court The police court is the competent court for traffic offenses in Belgium. It handles all offenses under the Road Traffic Act, from speed to [....]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verkeersrecht"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21250,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions\/21250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}