Over 100,000 people a day receive a speeding ticket in this country. That’s over 36,500,000 speeding tickets per year.
One in every six drivers will be ticketed for speeding this year.
Average speeding tickets cost $150.
Almost 5 and one half BILLION dollars a year are generated just from speeding fines. $150 x 36,500,000= $5,475,000,000!
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.
A lot of the 5% who do fight their ticket will either get reduced charges, or the ticket dismissed altogether.
There are almost 200,000,000 licensed drivers currently in the US.
40% of the time the police officer doesn’t show up in traffic court. This is grounds for 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.
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.
Conversely more women than men will fight their traffic tickets.
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.
The first automobile made by Henry Ford 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 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.
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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