Poles excel at committing traffic violations abroad

In 2018, the National Contact Point received as many as 1.5 million inquiries about Polish drivers sent by the police from the entire European Union. According to “Rzeczpospolita”, a daily newspaper in Poland, the inquiries concerning Polish drivers usually result from exceeding the speed limit. They are received from almost all European Union countries, but the greatest number of them is sent from Germany and Italy.
According to the statistics from previous years, the number of inquiries about Polish drivers is growing at a surprising pace. In the entire 2015, the NCP received about 53,000 requests. This number increased the following year to 897,200 applications and exceeded one million queries in 2017. In 2018 it grew even more, and there were 1,510,566 requests for information about Polish drivers.
Polish drivers most often break the law in Germany and Italy. The number of queries coming from those two countries reached 729,624 and 143,218, respectively. The average cost of a ticket is €70.
(Gazeta.pl)