More than 100,000 speeding tickets are issued daily. That comes to more than 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
One in every 6 drivers will get a speeding ticket this year.
Average speeding tickets cost $150.
$150 x 36,500,000= $5,475,000,000! Thats almost 5.5 BILLION per year in speeding ticket fines.
Auto insurance for just one speeding ticket can cost you around $900 on average over 3 years.
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.
The other 5% who make an effort to fight their ticket usually have their case dismissed or receive reduced charges that don’t get reported on their driving record.
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.
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.
More males than females receive speeding citations.
More women than men fight their speeding tickets in traffic court.
The age of drivers responsible for the most traffic accidents is 17.
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.
Since 1999, Washington, D.C. cameras have issued 2,421,841 tickets worth $182 million.
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.
Speeding tickets are handed out to doctors more than any other type of profession.
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.
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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