On average, over 100,000 drivers get speeding tickets every day. Thats 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.
That means 1 in 6 people will get a speeding ticket 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 ($3,285,000,000) in extra money made by insurance companies from increased auto insurance 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.
A police officer will fail to show up to court between 30 to 50% of the time. This is immediate grounds for a dismissal.
The first city in the US to use the photo radar was Paradise Valley, AZ in 1987.
Brooklyn, Ohio became the first city to mandate seat belts while driving back in 1966.
Drivers aged 17-24 receive the majority of speeding tickets.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
More women fight their speeding tickets than men.
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 motor vehicle, built in 1894, only went forward.
In 1868 horse buggies and also pedestrians in London were the first to use the precursor to the modern day traffic lights.
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 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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