From the start of stricter road rules on 7 August until 5 October, seven people were killed on Montenegrin roads. In the same period of 2025, 13 people died. Police recorded 1,274 crashes in the latest period, with 152 people seriously injured and 435 slightly injured. A year earlier there were 1,413 crashes, 184 serious injuries and 529 slight injuries.
The Police Administration said crashes fell by 9.8 percent, serious injuries by 17.4 percent and deaths by 46.2 percent compared with the same period in 2025. It described fewer crashes, injuries and deaths as the main aim of traffic-police prevention and enforcement, alongside stronger road safety, better driving culture, consistent application of the rules and protection of road users.
In just under two months officers sanctioned 42,405 traffic offences and detained 1,348 people for more serious offences. The offences they listed most often were speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol or psychoactive substances, not wearing a seat belt and unlawful use of a mobile phone while driving.
They also fined 172 drivers under 21 for breaking rules that apply to that age group. Seventy-five were sanctioned for driving a category B vehicle between midnight and 05:00, and 97 for driving a category B vehicle with an engine above 80 kW without the required supervision. The amendments ban under-21 drivers from using category B vehicles from midnight to 05:00 and limit them to vehicles of no more than 80 kW unless that supervision is in place.
Police recorded 105 offences involving light electric vehicles, including electric scooters. In 32 of those cases they sanctioned parents or guardians who let a person under 16 use a light electric vehicle. The new rules prohibit anyone under 16 from operating one.
The Police Administration said it will not tell the public where new radars are placed. The devices automatically record speeding without stopping the vehicle. Officers said they have no duty to announce the exact place, time or method of a radar check, or of other traffic controls, and that the law does not require every check to be announced by a sign, another warning or a public location list. They said a radar is a way of supervising speed limits that are already in force, and that a driver must keep to those limits on every section whether or not a check is under way. Visibility of the device is not, they said, a condition of a lawful check.
They will not publish the sites because they believe that would weaken the preventive effect. In their account, drivers who learn of a checkpoint through other drivers, apps or other warnings often slow only there, then speed again afterwards and in some cases cause crashes with the most serious consequences. The stated aim is compliance on every stretch, supported by the fact that a driver does not know where the next check will be.
Devices may be placed where they do not obstruct or endanger traffic. Sites are chosen by a safety-risk assessment, especially on sections with more crashes and speeding offences. Police said the place of a particular check can be fixed from the device’s GPS coordinates. They did not say who decides each site or whether a separate official record is kept for every one.
Asked whether a legal opinion or analysis was obtained before the radars were used, on whether automatic recording requires the control point to be marked in advance, police said they are not obliged to notify road users and pointed to court practice. They cited Croatian municipal court judgments Pp-1859/2023-4, Pp-2559/2023-4 and Pp-2550/2023-4, which they say confirm that advance notice of the place and time of a speed check is not mandatory. They also cited EU Court of Justice cases C-188/24 and C-190/24, which they say concern limits on spreading information about police checks through certain apps. On that basis they said there is no legal ground to require publication of the exact radar location as a condition of a lawful check.
For cars with foreign plates, police said that, where possible, another patrol stationed at a suitable distance will stop the driver after the radar records the offence, explain it and continue under the law. If the vehicle is not stopped, the vehicle and offence data stay in the information systems of the competent authorities and can be used later. If the same vehicle appears again at a border crossing, officers can check it, inform the driver and take lawful measures. If the driver does not accept responsibility or pay the fine, the case continues before the competent authorities, including the misdemeanour court. The Police Administration did not say with which countries Montenegro exchanges data to identify owners and drivers of foreign-registered cars, or how misdemeanour orders are served and fines collected abroad.