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 6 drivers will get a speeding ticket this year.
The average speeding ticket costs $150.00.
$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.
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.
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.
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.
The demographic that receives more speeding tickets are the 17 to 24 year drivers.
More males than females receive speeding citations.
Conversely more women than men will fight their traffic tickets.
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 automobile in 1894 only went in one direction, 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.
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.
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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