Over 100,000 people a day receive a speeding ticket in this country. That’s over 36,500,000 speeding tickets per year.
That means 1 in 6 people will get a speeding ticket this year.
An average speeding ticket will cost you $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.
Most people simply pay their speeding tickets instead of fighting it in traffic court. (over 95%!)
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.
There are 196,000,000 licensed drivers in America today.
A police officer will fail to show up to court between 30 to 50% of the time. This is immediate grounds for a dismissal.
Paradise Valley, Arizona, in 1987 became the first town in America to use photo radar.
Brooklyn, Ohio became the first city to mandate seat belts while driving back in 1966.
Drivers aged 17-24 receive the majority of speeding tickets.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
More women than men fight their speeding tickets in traffic court.
Seventeen year old drivers are more likely to be involved in an accident than any other age group.
In July 1879, two men are fined for speeding horses in Seattle.
Henry Ford’s first motor vehicle, built in 1894, only went forward.
Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. In 1868, a lantern with red and green signals was used at a London intersection to control the flow of horse buggies and pedestrians.
Photo radar cameras in Washington D.C. since 1999 have issued almost 3 million tickets worth almost $200 million.
The wife of the Prime Minister of Canada has the first known filed speeding ticket on record. She was busted doing almost a tremendous 10 mph above the posted speed limit.
Doctors receive the most speeding tickets than any other profession.
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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