About Traffic Fine Lookup
Traffic Fine Lookup is an independent data project — a free, no-signup reference for what speeding tickets actually cost across the 50 states: the statutory fine tiers, the mandatory assessments and surcharges that stack on top of the advertised base fine, license points, and the enhancement zones that raise everything. It exists because the number on a fine schedule and the number on the payment receipt are routinely far apart, and the pages explaining the gap are mostly marketing for someone. Every figure here comes from a primary source — a statute, a court fine schedule, or a DMV publication — carries its citation on the page, and where state law does not fix an amount, the page says "your court sets it" instead of inventing a total: 50 states, 237 fine tiers, 324 cited sources, re-verified annually. Not affiliated with any court, DMV, or government agency; nothing here is sponsored, and none of it is legal advice.
What this site is
Traffic Fine Lookup is a free, no-signup reference for one question: what a speeding ticket actually costs, in every state. Not the vague “$150–$500” of the listicles and not the base fine alone — the statutory tier amounts, the mandatory assessments and surcharges that stack on top of them, the license points, and the zones where everything doubles, each with a citation to the statute, court schedule, or DMV publication it came from.
Behind the pages sits a dataset of 50 states, 237 fine-tier rows, and 160 itemized add-ons, compiled from 324 primary sources — each stored with its URL, retrieval date, and a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying the number, so every figure can be re-checked against its origin.
Who it is for
Someone who just got a ticket and wants to know what it will really cost; someone comparing states before a move or a road trip; anyone who has noticed that the number on the citation and the number on the payment portal don't match and wants to see the arithmetic. It assumes no legal knowledge — every page explains WHO sets the number in that state, because that is the fact everything else depends on.
That reader is why the pages look the way they do: one answer at the top, the decomposition under it, a certainty label on every figure, and nothing to sign up for. Nothing you look up leaves your browser.
Why it exists
The real answer is public — statutes and court fine schedules print it — but it is scattered across 50 legal systems that do not even agree on who sets the number: 17 states run a statewide schedule, 20 write amounts into statute, 6 only cap the fine, and 7 leave it to each local court. Ask the web instead and the results are law-firm lead forms, traffic-school funnels, and listicles quoting unsourced ranges.
This site exists to be the other thing: the primary sources, compiled, decomposed, and honest about the cases where no statewide number exists to quote.
What it will and will not say
What state law fixes, it prints exactly — with the citation.
What state law only caps, it prints as a ceiling — “up to $125” is not a price, and this site never dresses it up as one.
What a local court decides, it says so — and decomposes what is knowable statewide instead of inventing a total.
It will never tell you what to do about a citation. No advice lives on this site — the build itself fails if advice language appears anywhere in it. It is a reference, and it is not legal advice.
How to check it
Do not take this site's word for anything — it is built so that you do not have to. Every page lists its sources with retrieval dates; the dataset stores a verbatim quote per figure; and the methodology page documents the source standards, the certainty taxonomy, the annual re-verification cadence, and every case in which this site refuses to print a number. If a figure here does not match the source it cites, report it — corrections outrank everything else.
Independence
An independent data project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any court, DMV, legislature, or government agency — and not with any law firm, traffic school, or insurer either. Nothing is sponsored; no figure is pay-to-play. The fine schedules themselves are edicts of government, which copyright does not reach. The site currently shows no ads and loads nothing from anyone else's server; if advertising is ever added to cover costs, the privacy policy regenerates to say so before it runs, and it still will not touch a published figure.