More than 100,000 speeding tickets are issued daily. That comes to more than 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.

$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.

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.

Over 95% of people who receive a speeding ticket never contest it and just pay the fine.

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.

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 fight their speeding tickets than men.

The age of drivers responsible for the most traffic accidents is 17.

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

Henry Ford’s first automobile in 1894 only went in one direction, 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.

Since 1999, Washington, D.C. cameras have issued 2,421,841 tickets worth $182 million.

The earliest known speeding ticket on file was issued in 1910 to the Prime Minister of Canada’s wife. She was traveling at a whopping 10 mph over the limit.

Out of all professions, doctors get the most speeding tickets.

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.

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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