On average, over 100,000 drivers get speeding tickets every day. Thats 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
That means 1 in 6 people will get a speeding ticket 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.
The average raise in insurance costs for one speeding ticket over the course of 3 years is $900.00.
Take 36,500,000 and multiply by $900 and you get 3.28 BILLION! Thats the extra money auto insurance companies make in increased 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.
There are 196,000,000 licensed drivers in America today.
40% of the time the police officer doesn’t show up in traffic court. This is grounds for dismissal.
In 1987 Paradise Valley AZ became the first place to use photo radar.
Brooklyn, Ohio became the first city to mandate seat belts while driving back in 1966.
The demographic that receives more speeding tickets are the 17 to 24 year drivers.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
Conversely more women than men will fight their traffic tickets.
17 year olds cause more traffic accidents than any other age.
In July 1879, two men are fined for speeding horses in Seattle.
Henry Ford’s first motor vehicle, built in 1894, only went forward.
At a London intersection in 1868, pedestrians and horse drawn buggies were the first to use traffic lights. They were lanterns that glowed either red or green.
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.
An average police officer will cost a city around $75,000 in salary and benefits per year. That same officer can make that same city almost double that in speeding ticket fines.
The top ten states for writing speeding tickets are:
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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