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speeding ticket
noun
: a piece of paper that a police officer gives to someone who was driving too fast and that indicates a fine that the driver will have to pay
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And just as getting stopped for a speeding ticket makes your commute a whole lot longer, breaking your zipper is going to add more to your packing time.
—Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 17 Oct. 2024
Low-cost car insurance rates for drivers with a DUI, speeding ticket or who caused an accident.
—Penny Gusner, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
How police escalated a speeding ticket Hill was driving to the Dolphins game when police pulled him over for speeding and reckless driving.
—Li Zhou, Vox, 10 Sep. 2024
An accident can jack your rate up even more than a speeding ticket: The national average rate increase is 45% for drivers who cause an accident with property damage, according to our evaluation of car insurance rates after an accident.
—Chris Kissell, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
Any driver caught going faster than that speed limit could be issued a speeding ticket, according to NerdWallet.
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 June 2024
How much does a speeding ticket cost in California?
—Angela Rodriguez, Sacramento Bee, 24 June 2024
On March 14, police arrested a man on an federal warrant and gave him a speeding ticket.
—Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2024
Police say Perez also had a speeding ticket on Dec. 4, 2022, and had crashed his car into a wall roughly one year earlier, in 2021.
—Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 29 Mar. 2024
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“Speeding ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speeding%20ticket. Accessed 10 Jan. 2025.
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