How many traffic tickets do you have over the last 5 or 6 years?

[lawrocket 3]

The question about getting out of a speeding ticket got me thinking. I saw a statistic a couple of years ago that said that about 10 percent of drivers are responsible for 75 percent of tickets. Some people just get ticket after ticket.

I've had some clients who are the same way. One of them had his license revoke for failure to pay child support. It hasn't stopped him from getting six tickets in the last 2 years.

Disclosure - I've been driving for 17 years and I have one ticket three years ago for making a right turn on red. No other violations.

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Speeding ticket 10 years ago in Texas... that is the one and only.

believe me when I say that there have been many times if the police saw what I was doing they would have written me up for sure... knock on wood! (taps head)

[Peej 0]

Wow, that's good going dude.

I have the tendancy to drive a little fast combined with a few spots on our local highways where our municipalities are clearly just trying to make money by putting up cameras and ridiculously low speed limits on huge three lane highways.

I'm talking 80km per hour zones in what are normally 120km/h zones. Still i don't do too badly, some months i get three or so, then will go a few months without one. I'd say it's no more than 7 - 10 a year though. I try to pay them as soon as i have the money though.

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[jumpjunkie2004 0]

Driving 24 years - three tickets.

Ages: 21, 28 and 38 (all speeding tickets)

I deserved all of them.

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[kelel01 1]

I think I've gotten 5 - 3 speeding tickets and 2 accidents. But only 1 speeding ticket in the past 3 years.

[soulshine 0]

I don't have any moving violations but I did get a ticket because my registration was expired, my tail light was out, and my inspection sticker wasn't current. When I got pulled I just laughed and didn't try to talk my way out of it. I was busted and I knew it.

I used to be in the military police and I hated it when someone would give me a line of bullshit to get out of a ticket. I hit the liars up extra hard, the ones that were honest and said that they fucked up and knew it usually got away with just a warning.

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[wildcard451 0]

A few tickets, none that stuck though.

Reckless for a car wreck after falling asleep at the wheel freshman year of college. Trooper couldn't make it due to the funeral of another officer and wrote a note to the judge on my behalf noting my cooperation and upstanding manner.

Illegal Left Turn once that I was late to court for because I forgot that they wouldn't allow me to have a cell phone in the courthouse. Only problem was that I had recently had knee surgery and had to hobble back 2 blocks to the parking deck and missed my name on the docket. I went up to plead "guilty" at the end of the session and by then the officer had left, and I had a copy of a flawless driving record with me.....judge let me go with a bit of humor in her voice and didn't even have to pay court costs.

Been pulled over a few times by people I knew....thaose were luck.

I really need to slow down.

[unformed 0]

driving eight years, it's not even funny how many i have. at one point, i was getting pulled over every month, and getting a ticket every three months. i have however managed to not lose my license for too many tickets.

most of them i didn't even realize i was doing something wrong when i got pulled over. ..

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I got one last year after hitting a guardrail due to black ice. The officer who stopped didn't write me a ticket, but someone in his office did 10 days later and sent it to me in the mail ("Speed too fast for conditions"). Prior to that it had been at least 10 years since I'd gotten a ticket.

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[niolosoiale 0]

I've been pulled over probably 5 times in 5 years but I've only ever received one ticket. The other 4 times were warnings for driving a P.O.S with busted tail lamps, no muffler, etc.

My only ticket was on a road trip from OKC to Niagara Falls to Mt. Rushmore. As a way to compensate for having to be subsidized slightly by my friends for the trip, I drove the entire way until 80 miles from the border of Minnesota and whatever state is next to it. Got pulled over doing 84 in a 70. After that I didn't drive the rest of the trip. I'll never say that I'll never get another speeding ticket again.

I don't normally speed more than 3-4 over but I was not looking forward to the time spent through the states between Niagara and Mt. Rushmore.

[selbbub78 0]

ZERO!!!!!!!! I'm female, i know how NOT to get a ticket!!!!

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[sickandtwisted 0]

Lifetime = Too many to list

Last 5 years = Only 2

Last 3 years (insurance companies only care about the last 3 years) = 1

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[namgrunt 0]

0 tickets in 36 years of driving

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[mcneill79 0]

I have only been pulled over 3 times, and only got a ticket once. Although he was in a nasty mood and gave me a ticket for speeding, and a ticket for not having my license plate horizontal... I only had one of the screws in Tried to give me a ticket for not wearing my seatbelt, b/c I took it off before he got over to me, but was nice enough to let me get away with that So I guess the answer is 2, but really should be one.

Now parking tickets that's another story.

[brianfry713 0]

12 that I know about and have written down in the last 5 years. Mostly speeding, stop signs, red lights, a carpool violation, and driving too close to a pedestrian on a left turn. I've also done traffic school 4 times, the last two online.

I do my part to support the CA Highway Patrol. I had a lot more before that I didn't keep track of. I also got pulled over 8 times without getting a ticket after I turned 16. It helped to know all the cops in town. I got one tossed because the cop didn't show up to court.

I had to start keeping a spreadsheet so I could know when I'm able to speed again. A few times I would drive as close to the speed limit as I could for months and then just a few days after I could get another ticket, I would. I often get a "negligent operator" warning from the DMV when I'm getting close to losing my license.

Some notable ones are a red light picture ticket on 12/31/99 with my girlfriend at the time in the passenger seat who my parents hated because she was asian. My mom got the photo in the mail and was pretty pissed off that we were still seeing each other. I was only 3rd in line at the light turning left, but had left the stick in neutral and didn't get it in gear in time to make the light .4 seconds after it turned red. The whole intersection lit up with camera flashes and I knew I was busted.

a 2 point wet and reckless with a .08 BAC (right on the legal limit), I was doing 80 and felt very sober, but I had 8-9 drinks over 4+ hours before that. That included a night in the drunk tank, many fines and lawyer fees and a 6 week DUI class, but I got to keep my license.

I also got nailed doing 130 on the freeway as I passed a cop in the slow lane, but he didn't have me on radar so he just wrote me up for 80 in a 65, even though he said I was doing much more than that. He also mentioned in court that he wasn't really looking for speeders at the time, just driving along and couldn't help but notice me fly by him in the fast lane.

My latest one I was asleep in the back seat and a friend of mine was driving who had been drinking a bit too much was speeding and passing on double yellows and around curves. We pulled into a gas station and tossed the empty beer bottles into the trash, went in to use the bathroom and when we came out noticed that a cop was behind our car at the pump with his lights on. The driver turned to me and asked if I could take the ticket so he wouldn't get a DUI. I did since tickets aren't really a big deal to me. Fortunately we got the ticket thrown out using a trial by written declaration probably because the cop couldn't really know it was us (and I really wasn't even driving at the time) since it was probably 5-10 minutes after we passed him until he pulled up behind us at the gas station.

I currently drive a 2004 Subaru Impreza WRX STi that I've gotten up to the governor at 155. My insurance was running $7,000 a year, but it's currently at $3,600.

My dad bought me a radar detector that has saved me from a few tickets, but doesn't always prevent them. I guess I've been good recently as it's been over a year since I've gotten a point, but I still speed and drive recklessly. I've got to avoid another drinking and driving offense if I want to keep my license and stay out of jail.

I've never hit another moving car, but I've had my share of single car incursions and hit a few stopped/parked cars slowly.

Drive fast, take chances.

A friend of mine recently got his first two tickets when we were on road trips within minutes after he took over driving for me when he was going a lot slower than I was for most of the trip. Those were his first few tickets and he asked me something like "How can you be so lucky to speed all the time and never get tickets" to which I replied, "dude! I get tickets all the time!".

I've spent 10s of thousands of dollars on speeding tickets, failures to appear, and the DUI ran at least 5 grand by itself, not to mention the insurance premiums, which in a few years outweigh the cost of the car.

I also used to get about 20-25 parking tickets a year at U.C. Santa Cruz when they wouldn't give me a parking pass because there weren't enough spots. That's gone down now, but I also spent thousands on those.

[chaoskitty 0]

Umm.. I went about 4 years without getting any tickets, and then I got six in one year. 2 of them were on the way to the dz in exactly the same spot.
I've talked my way out of at least as many as I've paid. Not proud of any of that, but hey, you asked.

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None in the last 5 or so years. Parking tickets on the other hand, I've yet to learn not to question the evil meter maid

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[Icon134 0]

I've been stopped a few times in the 15 years I've been driving... like some have said I never bullshit the officers... sometimes I've gotten warnings... other times I've gotten ticketed...

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[Miami 0]

Been pulled over about 30-35 times, all of them for speeding, about 15 of them ended up in tickets. Being military has gotten me out of them the majority of the time. Doing good now though, haven't been pulled over in almost a year.[knock on wood]

edit - this is over the past 11 years or so

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The question about getting out of a speeding ticket got me thinking. I saw a statistic a couple of years ago that said that about 10 percent of drivers are responsible for 75 percent of tickets. Some people just get ticket after ticket.

This would be me.

I end up getting more extensions that Yanni to space them out. When the DMV threaten to take my license away, I use my UK one until they drop off the CA one. I can use the UK for up to a year after each entry into the US.

I have been better of late though.

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None, I am a great driver!! I speed, don't get caught. I am aggressive, but would do well at the Nascar track. I love to drive and put most race car drivers to shame. BUT, I am not a risk taker.

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[PLFXpert 0]

I have been with my hunny as of September of this year for 6 years--during this time I have had 0 tickets.

I don't drive anymore, I'm driven

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I've been pulled over twice in that time---neither resulted in a ticket.

Prior to meeting him (I was 20 when we met) I had 8 speeding tickets and was pulled over 32 times (or 33 I can't remember now, but had kept track in my old car).

My insurance is FINALLY in the 3-digits annually! LOVE IT!

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