On average, over 100,000 drivers get speeding tickets every day. Thats 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
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.
Auto insurance for just one speeding ticket can cost you around $ 900 on average over 3 years.
Multiply 900 by 36,500,000 and you get $ 3,285,000,000 (3.28 BILLION dollars) in extra insurance money the insurance industry makes in a single year just from speeding tickets.
More than 95% of drivers who get speeding tickets will simply pay the fine and not fight it in traffic court.
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.
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.
The first city to mandate the wearing of seat belts was Brooklyn Ohio in 1966.
Drivers aged 17-24 receive the majority of speeding tickets.
More males than females receive speeding citations.
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 1879 two men in Seattle Washington were ticketed for speeding horses.
The first automobile made by Henry Ford 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 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.
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.
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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