The Things You’re Doing That Will Get You a Speeding Ticket (Besides Speeding)

The official reasons for getting pulled over

There are a handful of things that a cop can pull you over for—which is when you better know the best way to talk yourself out of a ticket. You’ve likely committed a moving violation, which means you could end up with points on your license, an increase in your rates, or depending on your recent behavior, a license suspension, warns insurance advisor, Bradley Hamburger.

According to Edmunds.com, which conducted a poll of three separate police agencies, the number one most common of moving violations is speeding. In fact, a whopping 34 million speeding tickets are handed out each year in this country. After speeding, here are the other most common:

• tailgating
• running a stop sign or red light
• failing to yield (when another car has the right of way)
• failing to signal (turns or lane changes)

• failing to drive within a single lane

• driving on the shoulder

• failing to stop for a pedestrian on a crosswalk

• failing to stop for a school bus when its stop lights/signs are displayed.

• failing to secure a load
• making illegal use of a carpool lane

• failing to wear a seat belt

• using illegal window tints

• driving without a license or outside the conditions of one’s license
• driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol
• unsafe driving (which in some states includes using a cell phone and other forms of distracted driving)
• street racing
• vehicular homicide
• fleeing the scene of an accident

While getting pulled over for any reason is no laughing matter, these court cases have names that will make you laugh all the way to traffic court.

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