2006-07-05 22:04:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
About four or five per officer, per hour here where I work....there are usually three officers on evening....three night....and four mornings....you do the math.
2006-07-08 21:12:52 · answer #1 · answered by Rescue76 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one knows how many traffic tickets are actually issued. Many local units of government deliberately hide this information so they don't have to split their traffic ticket revenue with the state. Not including parking tickets (another scam), we can estimate that somewhere between 25 and 50 million traffic tickets are issued each year. This would make the total number of tickets issued per minute at anywhere between 50 and 100.
Assuming an average ticket cost of $150.00, the total up front profit from tickets ranges from 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars. If just half of these tickets result in insurance surcharges (typically at least $300 over a period of three years), you can add another 3.75 to 7.5 billion dollars in profit for insurance companies.
In total, we’re talking about 7.5 to 15 billion dollars annually from tickets for government agencies and insurance companies. That's more money than several states take in from all taxes! If it really were 10,000 speeding tickets per minute, no one in the US would have any money left to afford gas (though that's increasingly becoming the case). Some really good resources on traffic information can be found at safemotorist.com and the NTSA websites. I hope this helped!
2006-07-06 12:00:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Estimates put the total at about 10,000 each minute nation wide (USA); about a third of that in allied European countries.
2006-07-06 05:17:42 · answer #3 · answered by Mr. Wizard 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋