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On average, over 100,000 drivers get speeding tickets every day. Thats 36,500,000 traffic tickets yearly.

One in every 6 drivers will get a speeding ticket this year.

The average speeding ticket costs $150.00.

Almost 5 and one half BILLION dollars a year are generated just from speeding fines. $150 x 36,500,000= $5,475,000,000!

$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.

Most people simply pay their speeding tickets instead of fighting it in traffic court. (over 95%!)

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.

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.

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.

More males than females receive speeding citations.

More women fight their speeding tickets than men.

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

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

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.

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