More than 100,000 speeding tickets are issued daily. That comes to more than 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
That means 1 in 6 people will get a speeding ticket this year.
The average speeding ticket costs $150.00.
Almost 5 and one half BILLION dollars a year are generated just from speeding fines. $150 x 36,500,000= $5,475,000,000!
$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! 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.
Of the 5% of people who do go to traffic court to contest their ticket, a large percentage will either have the charge reduced or the ticket dropped altogether.
In the US there are almost 200 million licensed drivers.
A police officer will fail to show up to court between 30 to 50% of the time. This is immediate grounds for a 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 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 fight their speeding tickets than men.
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 first known speeding ticket was given to the wife of Canada’s Prime Minister in 1910. She was doing 10 miles an hour 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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