Over 100,000 people a day receive a speeding ticket in this country. That’s over 36,500,000 speeding tickets per year.
That means 1 in 6 people will get a speeding ticket this year.
An average speeding ticket will cost you $150.
Almost 5 and one half BILLION dollars a year are generated just from speeding fines. $150 x 36,500,000= $5,475,000,000!
The average raise in insurance costs for one speeding ticket over the course of 3 years is $900.00.
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.
Most people simply pay their speeding tickets instead of fighting it in traffic court. (over 95%!)
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.
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.
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.
Males receive more speeding tickets than their female counter parts.
More women than men fight their speeding tickets in traffic court.
The age of drivers responsible for the most traffic accidents is 17.
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.
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 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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