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.
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.
The average raise in insurance costs for one speeding ticket over the course of 3 years is $900.00.
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.
More than 95% of drivers who get speeding tickets will simply pay the fine and not fight it in traffic court.
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.
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.
In 1966 Brooklyn Ohio was the first city that mandated the use of seat belts.
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.
17 year olds cause more traffic accidents than any other age.
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.
Since 1999, Washington, D.C. cameras have issued 2,421,841 tickets worth $182 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.
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 10 states for giving out 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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