Most/Least ticketd Vehicles

[rose0529]

From Newsday.com

http://www.newsday.com/services/news...0,197591.story

What is it about those Hummer drivers?

A company that helps auto insurers spot high risks says in a new report that drivers of the H2 and H3 are ticketed by police at more than four times the rate of the average driver - the highest of models it studied.

But contrary to the stereotype of the aggressive sport utility vehicle driver, the report by ISO Quality Planning of San Francisco also found that drivers of Chevrolet Suburbans and Tahoes, big SUVs that share structural and mechanical basics with the H2, are among the least likely to get tickets for moving violations, based on a study of tickets issued nationwide in a 12-month period ended last year by drivers of more than 1.7 million vehicles.

Why the difference? Quality Planning executives can only guess. "The sense of power that Hummer drivers derive from their vehicle may be directly correlated with the number of violations they incur," president Raj Bhat said in statement. "Or perhaps Hummer drivers, by virtue of their driving position, are less likely to notice road hazards, signs, pedestrians or other drivers."




On Long Island, homebuilder and renovator Steve Nemiroff of Roslyn Heights said yesterday he has never been ticketed for a moving violation in 163,000 miles of driving the 2003 H2 he bought from North Bay Cadillac Hummer in Great Neck. And he said he does feel safe behind the wheel. "No matter what the weather or where I am," he said, "I never worry about me getting hurt."

Quality Planning said other vehicles whose drivers attract above-average numbers of tickets are those that appeal to young people, especially the Toyota/Scion xA, xB and tC; and at least two that appeal to auto enthusiasts, the Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG and CLS63 AMG.

Quality Planning's survey isn't the first to single out the drivers of Hummers; the Highway Loss Data Institute, a suburban Virginia-based group affiliated with the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, says on its Web site that H3s have a "substantially worse than average," rate of claims for property damage, though not for other types of claims.

The institute says the larger Hummer H2 has a substantially worse-than-average record for property damage and also for bodily injury and even fire and theft claims.

Most ticketed vehicles:
Hummer H2, H3
Scion tC
Scion xB
Mercedes CLK63AMG
Toyota Solara Coupe
Mercedes CLS63AMG
Scion xA
Subaru Outback
Audi A4
Toyota Matrix

Least ticketed vehicles:
Jaguar XJ
Chevrolet Suburban
Chevrolet Tahoe
Chevrolet C/K 2500/3500 pickup
Buick Park Avenue
Mazda 6
Buick Ranier SUV
Oldsmobile Silhouette minivan
Buick Lucerne
GMC Sierra C1500 pickup

[asshanson]

Not surprising that the xA, xB, and tC are on there, as well as the toyota Matrix. I imagine it's 99% high school kids messing around.

I'm surprised there aren't more minivans on the least ticketed list, but I guess the big SUVs are replacing the minivans.

[goodhart]

Man, I guess it sucks to own a Toyota or Mercedes lol. I have never had problems with my talon no matter how fast I drive cops seem to ignore it. My slow ass avenger on the other hand is a friggin cop magnet for some reason.

[cmspaz]

Originally Posted by goodhart

I have never had problems with my talon no matter how fast I drive cops seem to ignore it.

Yeah, cops have pretty much ignored the Talon, save for the parking bitch who nailed me for no front plate downtown.

[hippiekiller]

I would like to see how it breaks down by the shear amount of cars sold. Like tickets per vehicle on the road or something along those lines. Until they show that kind of data then you really have to take it with a grain of salt.

[AwdGSX13]

I unfortunatly have been cought speeding twice in the last month in the evo.. No good.

[Constant_Project21]

I never got pulled over in my laser or my talon. My SOHC stealth was a cop magnet as well, I think that had to due to the fact it was bright red...haha.

[hippiekiller]

Colors do play a lot into what gets pulled over. And it seems every H2 or H3 I see is freaking yellow...Too many variables that are not addressed for me in this report. Much like all reports like this.

[turbotalon1g]

They like black&white DSMs, mainly '91 driven by me.
None for speeding though, just everything else.

[Halon]

It's not the color of the DSM, it's your dark brown skin nignog

[turbotalon1g]

^lol, I don't usually say that is what it is, but most other people do, I even got pulled over for 3 diff. things in the rolla in 3 weeks