{"id":21240,"date":"2026-05-08T20:11:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/verkeersrechtbank-versus-politierechtbank\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T11:37:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:37:46","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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 Advocaten clarifies.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Police court as traffic judge<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police court is the competent court for traffic offences in Belgium. It handles all road traffic law violations, from speed to alcohol, drugs, hit-and-run and driving without a licence.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When does a traffic case NOT go to police court?<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fatal road traffic accidents, and failure to stop after an accident causing injury or death, also remain within the jurisdiction of the police court (Articles 138, 6\u00b0 and 6\u00b0bis of the Judicial Code). A case is referred to the correctional court only where a road traffic offence is connected with an offence that is not a road traffic offence.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Novex Advocaten: 0484 99 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 Advocaten<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Call: <a href=\"tel:+32484992272\">0484 99 22 72<\/a> | <a href=\"mailto:asfour@novexadvocaten.be\">asfour@novexadvocaten.be<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veel mensen verwarren de termen &#8220;verkeersrechtbank&#8221; en &#8220;politierechtbank&#8221;. In Belgi\u00eb bestaat er geen aparte verkeersrechtbank \u2014 het is de politierechtbank die bevoegd is voor de meeste verkeerszaken. Novex Advocaten verduidelijkt. De politierechtbank als verkeersrechter De politierechtbank is de bevoegde rechter voor verkeersrechtelijke inbreuken in Belgi\u00eb. Ze behandelt alle overtredingen van de Wegverkeerswet, van snelheid tot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22694,"href":"https:\/\/novexadvocaten.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21240\/revisions\/22694"}],"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}]}}