Many things can affect your auto insurance premiums, for example, how many miles you drive per day and per year, whether you’ve been in any accidents that were your fault and where you live.
One factor you may not be aware of is the number of moving violations you’ve received when driving a particular vehicle. (Parking tickets generally don’t count.)
When assessing risk, insurance carriers look at a person’s driving habits and presume that someone with several tickets for speeding is more likely to get into an accident than someone with no moving violations. In addition, the amount of the claim for an auto in a high-speed accident is going to be higher, with more property damage and possibly bodily injuries as well.
|Red cars and speeding tickets
Drivers have thought that the color of the car was a major influence on whether they received speeding tickets. A long-held belief is that red cars are ticketed more often than any other color. But most law enforcement agencies deny that a car’s color has anything to do with whether it will be cited for speeding more often.
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