Status: 08/27/2022 09:26 a.m
Motorists have had to pay higher fines since November. In most cases, this also means significantly higher income for municipalities and states. How much money does that bring to the coffers?
Traffic offenders brought many states and municipalities in Germany significantly more revenue in the first half of the year than a year earlier. The authorities partly justify this with the new catalog of fines. Since November there have been higher penalties for individual road traffic offences. For example, if you drive 16 to 20 km/h too fast in town and are flashed, you pay 70 euros instead of 35 euros as before. It has also become more expensive for those who park illegally on sidewalks and cycle paths, stop illegally on protective lanes or park and stop in the second row.
However, according to the survey by the dpa news agency, trends are not yet evident in all federal states.
The cities in the southwest reported significantly higher revenues in the first six months. In Baden-Württemberg In the state capital of Stuttgart, they totaled 11.5 million euros – that’s an increase of 5.2 million euros compared to the first half of 2021. The reason given was the increase in warnings and fines.
More violations in Saxony
municipalities in Saxony referred to more violations that were identified. According to the city administration, around 9.34 million euros were taken in Leipzig by the end of June, around 4.25 million euros more than in the first six months of 2021. In the state capital Dresden, income doubled to around 4.77 million euros.
That country Brandenburg According to the Ministry of the Interior, it took in around 30.68 million euros by the end of June, almost ten million euros more than in the first six months of 2021. The Ministry of the Interior suspected that corona restrictions last year also played a role as a reason for the increase. In the early days of the pandemic, significantly fewer vehicles were on the roads. More revenue was also recorded Berlin, Thuringia and municipalities in Bavaria and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
More accidents
The Central Fines Office in Hesse spoke of an increase of more than eleven million euros in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year. In Essen in NRW more than 7.2 million euros were flushed into the city coffers in the first half of the year, significantly more than a year ago and more than in the same period of 2019, i.e. before the corona pandemic.
The catalog of fines does not seem to have an effect on the number of accidents. According to calculations by the Federal Statistical Office, there were again more dead and injured in accidents on the roads in Germany in the first half of the year. The changed catalog of fines with tougher penalties did not have a major impact on the speed level, as initial research results suggested.