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.
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.
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 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.
Paradise Valley, Arizona, in 1987 became the first town in America 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 fight their speeding tickets than men.
The age of drivers responsible for the most traffic accidents is 17.
Two men in Seattle were fined for their speeding horses. In 1879.
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.
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.
The average traffic cop will cost a city about $75,000 per year in salary, bonuses, and benefits. This same police officer will make the city an average of $200,000 per year in traffic ticket fines! That’s one hell of a profit margin.
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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