Two Hundred and Twenty-Four

During a traffic control operation on the A13 motorway on Wednesday, police measured a driver travelling at 224 km/h. The speed limit on that stretch is 110 km/h. The driver was more than doubling the legal maximum.[1]

A police patrol pursued the vehicle. The driver was stopped a short time later, removed from traffic, and had his licence confiscated on the spot. He was reported by the officers.[1]

224 km/h is not a typo. It is the speed at which a passenger car covers 62 metres per second. At that speed, the stopping distance from the moment a hazard appears to the moment the car comes to a complete halt is measured in football pitches, not metres. The A13 is a motorway, not a runway.[1]

Last month, 29 people died on Luxembourg's roads in the first half of 2026. The government responded with stricter controls and higher fines. A driver doing 224 in a 110 zone is not a statistical anomaly. He is the reason the statistics exist.[1]