Read These Astonishing Speeding Ticket Facts!

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%!)

A lot of the 5% who do fight their ticket will either get reduced charges, or the ticket dismissed altogether.

There are 196,000,000 licensed drivers in America today.

Immediate grounds for dismissal of a traffic ticket is the officer not showing up to traffic court. This happens 40% of the time.

In 1987 Paradise Valley AZ became the first place to use photo radar.

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.

Two men in Seattle were fined for their speeding horses. In 1879.

Henry Ford's first motor vehicle, built in 1894, only went forward.

Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. In 1868, a lantern with red and green signals was used at a London intersection to control the flow of horse buggies and pedestrians.

Photo radar cameras in Washington D.C. since 1999 have issued almost 3 million tickets worth almost $200 million.

The first known speeding ticket was given to the wife of Canada's Prime Minister in 1910. She was doing 10 miles an hour over the limit.

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