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.

$900 is the average increase a speeding ticket will cause your auto insurance premiums to increase over three 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.

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.

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.

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.

The age groups between 17 and 24 years of age receive the most speeding tickets.

More men than women receive speeding tickets.

Conversely more women than men will fight their traffic tickets.

17 year olds cause more traffic accidents than any other age.

In 1879 two men in Seattle Washington were ticketed for speeding horses.

Henry Ford’s first automobile in 1894 only went in one direction, forward.

In 1868 horse buggies and also pedestrians in London were the first to use the precursor to the modern day traffic lights.

Since 1999, Washington, D.C. cameras have issued 2,421,841 tickets worth $182 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.

Speeding tickets are handed out to doctors more than any other type of profession.

An average police officer will cost a city around $75,000 in salary and benefits per year. That same officer can make that same city almost double that in speeding ticket fines.

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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This article should give some hope to people who have received speeding tickets because there are ways to fight speeding tickets.

One thing you could do is file a discovery request with the prosecutor to acquire any documents relating to your case. These documents could include things such as the calibration records of the radar or speedometer of the car that clocked your speed. You would want to do this in advance of your traffic court date so you would have time to go through them for inaccuracies. But the possible downside of this is reminding the officer who gave you the ticket to show up in traffic court.

Beat the beam: When you fight speeding tickets, note that speed-measuring devices such as radar and laser (a.k.a. LIDAR, or Light Detecting and Ranging) are subject to human error. In some instances, officers have failed to give sufficient proof of proper LIDAR positioning, and subsequently the cases were dismissed.

Go for technicalities: In order to fight speeding tickets, keep in mind that if certain elements of a ticket are missing, the case can be thrown out. For instance, if the officer’s name and signature are illegible and if the badge number is illegible as well, then it should be dismissed.

You want to keep brief your report of your side of the argument to the judge when you go to traffic court to fight speeding tickets. Remember that the judge has very limited time for each individual in traffic court. Use visual aids to help your argument such as a photo of an obscured sign by a tree or bush.

You can sometime fight speeding tickets and win by default. If for instance the officer doesn’t show up in traffic court, and if the court prosecutor asks for a continuance then you should object to this. The ticket should be thrown out if the officer does not have a valid reason for missing traffic court.

Speeding tickets can raise your insurance, cause accidents and other hazards. The best way to avoid receiving a speeding ticket is not to speed!

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There are differences between traffic tickets. Determining the type of ticket you have is important when evaluating your situation.

A lot of times when you have a minor violation and it wont result in any points on your license its best to go ahead and pay it and avoid trying to challenge it in traffic court.

Traffic tickets fall under one of two categories: non-moving violations and moving violations. Non-moving violations typically involve parking your car illegally or minor ‘fix-it’ tickets. These violations are not as serious as their counter-parts (moving violations) and usually involve much smaller fines.

These can be a nuisance but at least they wont go on your driving history or be reported to your auto insurance.

Non moving violations can be things such as not wearing your seatbelt, a broken headlight or improperly parking your vehicle.

In most cases these should just be paid. It can be a big hassle to go to traffic court for these kinds of violations. The reason is the fines for these are usually no more than $50 or so, and you could end up being in traffic court for hours. Not worth it in my judgment.

But if you felt the ticket was given unjustly, you should always attempt to resolve it in some way. For example a broken head light ticket will usually be tossed if you show proof you fixed it.

Moving violations are a violation of the law committed while the vehicle is in motion, and this term ‘motion’ distinguishes it from a non moving violation. While most moving violations are considered misdemeanors or infractions, more serious violations can be felonies.

Moving violations normally involve the payment of fines, and also having points assessed against the driving record of the driver. As points are accumulated more severe punishment can be ordered such as having to take defensive driving courses up to having your drivers license suspended.

You may think we have it bad in the US, and we do, because traffic fines can go all the way up to $500 and more. But in some countries around the world, traffic can be set according to an individuals income, and in some rare cases be more than $100,000!

More common moving violations can include speeding (THE most common), failure to secure a load, failure to yield right of way, violating high occupancy vehicle lanes, or not stopping for a pedestrian.

More serious moving violations include: racing on a public street, road rage, drunk driving, and vehicular homicide

Traffic violations are also broken down into either civil or criminal. While they both have points and fines associated with them, only criminal violations can wind up you up in jail.

Sentences handed down in criminal violations are obligations to the state for acts committed. The term ’state’ can be a city, town, state or federal government or any other kind of m municipality. These are moving violations to avoid at all costs, obviously.

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