Facts on Speeding Tickets for Students

When students become drivers at 16 or 17 years old, they're often involved in accidents or receive speeding tickets. According to Speeding Ticket Facts, the most likely age group to be involved in an accident are 17-year-old drivers. Giving students facts and information about speeding and tickets may convince them to be more careful, cautious drivers.

  1. Who Gets Tickets?

    • There are 196,000,000 licensed drivers in the United States, as of November 2010, according to According to Traffic Ticket Secrets: Speeding Ticket Facts. Every day, more than 100,000 people get a speeding ticket. This number doesn't indicate how many people are speeding ̵2;it simply indicates how many get caught. Also according to Traffic Ticket Secrets, 41,000,000 speeding tickets are given out every year. This also means in a year one in every six drivers will get a speeding ticket. The most common age group to receive a ticket are those between 17 and 24 years of age.

    How Much Do These Tickets Cost?

    • According to Traffic Ticket Secrets: Speeding Ticket Facts, the average speeding ticket costs $150. With 41,000,000 tickets being given out every year at $150 each, that's more than $6 billion in speeding ticket fines. When you get a speeding ticket, your cost of insurance automatically rises. On average, the rise in insurance costs for one ticket over a three-year span is $900. That̵7;s $36.9 billion in extra insurance that people are paying and this includes teen drivers as well. Parents may not be exactly happy to pay their teen̵7;s insurance bills, let alone raised prices due to speeding tickets.

    Why Does This Matter to Teens?

    • According to Speeding Ticket Central: Teenage Drivers, speeding is a factor in 37 percent of car accidents involving drivers age 16. Speeding at night is also a problem. About 50 percent of motor vehicle deaths in teens occur from speeding between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. As a whole, over 5,000 teens and young adults from ages 16 to 20 die due to fatal car accidents each year, according to Teen Auto Insurance Quote, and 400,000 drivers ages 16 to 20 will be seriously injured. Out of the male drivers in those categories who were killed, ages 15 to 20, 38 percent of them were speeding.

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