Drivers speeding in luxury cars racked up more than $10 million in speeding tickets recorded by New York City radars last year.
The information was released by The New York Postwhich cited a new analysis by Transportation Alternatives e pela Families for Safe Streets. According to them, drivers who exceed the speed limit are more likely to be driving expensive, late-model cars.
“Drivers who drive at high speeds are spending millions to speed through the streets of their neighborhood in new luxury cars,” he said. Ben Furnasexecutive director of the group, who used urban traffic data for his analysis.
One of these drivers has already shelled out a staggering $70,536 in fines for speeding while driving a BMW X5 2022according to the report. Another, the driver of a Mercedes-Benz GLS-Class 2024owes the exorbitant amount of US$93,714, but continues to drive.
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Although only about 25% of vehicles on the city’s streets are luxury brands, a staggering 40% of drivers who drive at high speeds drive luxury cars, the analysis revealed.
Among the 1,000 worst offenders, 52% drive luxury vehicles, with the most common being BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi. On average, each speeding driver pays more than $4,890 in fines, fees and penalties. But on average, wealthy drivers still owe $1,266, the analysis found.
Therefore, Furnas argued that new legislation proposed in Albany against so-called “super speeders” will help save lives “and even save money for the offenders themselves — most of whom spend thousands of dollars more on speeding tickets than they would on a speed limiter.”
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