Kudos to PennLive.com today for breaking down data collected by the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts, showing almost seven million traffic violations written by state law enforcement agencies from 2013 to 2017.
The numbers show that speeding is by far the most common driving sin. Over 1.5 million drivers were cited for speeding violations over the five years. Failure to obey a traffic control device was second on the list, with more than 740,000 violations. Third on the list was operating a vehicle without a valid inspection. There were 631,000 tickets written for that.
So where were the least and most tickets written? Tiny Forest County had only 1,176 speeding tickets in the five years. Chester County, meanwhile, in the Philadelphia area, had 98,843. Allegheny County had the second highest total, at more than 93,000.
Ranking the counties from the fewest to the most speeding tickets, Indiana County comes in at number 32, with 15,516 speeders caught. The county also had 7.672 drivers cited for failure to obey a traffic control device (which would be for things such as running a red light); there were 2,971 inspection violators in Indiana County.
Westmoreland County is ranked number 59, with 51,708 speeding tickets in the five years. Cambria County was number 51; Clearfield County was number 31; Jefferson County number 23; and Armstrong County number 21.
By the way, black-colored cars were cited most for speeding, followed by silver, then white. Sixty-three percent of cited drivers were men; the highest age bracket for tickets was ages 20-29; and May, followed by April, were the months when drivers were most likely to get tagged.
