More than 100,000 speeding tickets are issued daily. That comes to more than 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
One in every 6 drivers will get a speeding ticket 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.
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.
In the US there are almost 200 million licensed drivers.
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.
Drivers aged 17-24 receive the majority of speeding tickets.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
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 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.
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 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.
Speeding tickets are handed out to doctors more than any other type of 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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