Over 100,000 people a day receive a speeding ticket in this country. That’s over 36,500,000 speeding tickets per year.
One in every six drivers will be ticketed for speeding this year.
An average speeding ticket will cost you $150.
36,500,000 x 150.00 = $5,475,000,000 That’s almost 5 and a half BILLION dollars per year in speeding ticket fines alone.
$900 is the average increase a speeding ticket will cause your auto insurance premiums to increase over three years.
Take 36,500,000 and multiply by $900 and you get 3.28 BILLION ($3,285,000,000) in extra money made by insurance companies from increased auto insurance premiums.
Over 95% of people who receive a speeding ticket never contest it and just pay the fine.
A lot of the 5% who do fight their ticket will either get reduced charges, or the ticket dismissed altogether.
In the US there are almost 200 million licensed drivers.
40% of the time the police officer doesn’t show up in traffic court. This is grounds for dismissal.
The first city in the US to use the photo radar was Paradise Valley, AZ in 1987.
The first city to mandate the wearing of seat belts was Brooklyn Ohio in 1966.
The age groups between 17 and 24 years of age receive the most speeding tickets.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
More women than men fight their speeding tickets in traffic court.
17 year olds cause more traffic accidents than any other age.
In 1879 two men in Seattle Washington were ticketed for speeding horses.
Henry Ford’s first motor vehicle, built in 1894, only went forward.
In 1868 horse buggies and also pedestrians in London were the first to use the precursor to the modern day traffic lights.
Washington D.C. area photo radar cameras since 1999 have been responsible for almost 3,000,000 traffic tickets worth almost $200,000,000.
The earliest known speeding ticket on file was issued in 1910 to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. She was traveling at a whopping 10 mph over the limit.
Out of all professions, doctors get the most speeding tickets.
In salary and benefits an average police officer will cost a city around $75,000 a year. He will also make the town an average of $150,000 in that same year. Cops are good investments.
Top 10 States Notorious for Writing Tickets:
1. Ohio
2. Pennsylvania
3. New York
4. California
5. Texas
6. Georgia
7. Virginia
8. North Carolina
9. Massachusetts
10. Connecticut
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