Check Out These Amazing Facts About Speeding Tickets

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.

The average speeding ticket costs $150.00.

36,500,000 x 150.00 = $5,475,000,000 That's almost 5 and a half BILLION dollars per year in speeding ticket fines alone.

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.

In the US there are almost 200 million licensed drivers.

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

Paradise Valley, Arizona, in 1987 became the first town in America to use photo radar.

Brooklyn, Ohio became the first city to mandate seat belts while driving back 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.

Conversely more women than men will fight their traffic tickets.

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.

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 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.

Doctors receive the most speeding tickets than any other 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.

Top 10 States Notorious for Writing Tickets:

1. Ohio 2. Pennsylvania 3. New York 4. California 5. Texas 6. Georgia 7. Virginia 8. North Carolina 9. Massachusetts 10. Connecticut