Waunakee, WI (MMD Newswire) Information on how many traffic tickets are issued in each state is hard to come by because most localities — especially ticket-happy speed trap towns — are reluctant to publicize their ticketing prowess and states typically don’t have an agency responsible for gathering and summarizing ticket data from the various jurisdictions.
How did the NMA generate these rankings?
The rankings below were generated by analyzing ticket-related search queries such as “speeding ticket” and “traffic tickets” over time using Google’s Search Insights — a public tool that shows state-by-state search trends across the United States.
Without further ado, the rankings:
After crunching the numbers, the National Motorists Association found that the state most likely to hand out a traffic ticket is Florida, followed closely by Georgia and Nevada. The state where drivers are least likely to get a traffic ticket is Montana.
Here are the 10 states (and District) most likely to ticket motorists:
1) Florida
2 tie) Georgia
2 tie) Nevada
4) Texas
5) Alabama
6) Missouri
7) New York
8 North Carolina
9) District of Columbia
10) New Jersey
And here are the 10 states least likely to ticket motorists:
51) Montana
50) Wyoming
49) North Dakota
48) South Dakota
47) Alaska
46) Maine
45) West Virginia
44) Idaho
43) Nebraska
42) New Mexico
Obviously, these rankings aren’t perfect (search queries can be impacted by a number of different factors), but the National Motorists Association has found that the list matches up well with their day-to-day experiences helping motorists fight traffic
tickets.
The full list of state rankings and further information on how they were calculated can be found at www.motorists.org.
— SOURCE National Motorists Association
