The drivers who rack up dozens—sometimes hundreds—of speed-camera tickets in a single year. A plate-level accountability dashboard and companion to the NYC Traffic Collisions deep dive.
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Camera tickets (FY2026)
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DVAP-Eligible Plates (FY2026)
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Top Plate, FY2026 Tickets
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01 — Speed and risk
A small group of drivers accounts for a large share of camera tickets
Speed is a major factor in whether a crash is fatal. A small share of drivers account for much of the camera-detected speeding, and the costs show up on everyone's insurance.
Pedestrian fatality risk by impact speed
20 mph
~10%
30 mph
~40%
40 mph
~80%
50 mph
~95%
A pedestrian struck at 20 mph has roughly a 1-in-10 chance of being killed. At 40 mph, the risk rises to 4-in-5. Doubling the speed more than doubles the risk.
Sources: AAA Foundation; Rosén & Sander, 2009
The super-speeder concentration
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Of FY2026 camera tickets came from the top 1% of plates
TOP 1%
EVERYONE ELSE (99%)
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A small group of repeat offenders accounts for a large share of the camera-detected speeding. The Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program (DVAP) was written for this group — any car with 15+ school-zone speed tickets in 12 months is eligible to be booted or impounded.
What everyone else pays
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EST. SHARED COST PER NYC HOUSEHOLD / YEAR
Speeding causes crashes and crashes produce insurance claims, which insurers spread across all policyholders as pooled risk. New York drivers now pay some of the highest auto-insurance premiums in the country, and a measurable portion of that traces to the drivers who crash most.
Lower-risk drivers help cover the cost of higher-risk ones. Emergency room visits, ambulance runs, disability claims and lost workdays are all eventually paid through premiums, taxes or hospital budgets.
NYC avg full-coverage premium ~$4,100/yr (2025, Bankrate); portion attributable to higher-risk driving is an estimate — see methodology.
02 — Most-ticketed plates
Top 50 plates by camera tickets
Plates are public record, already published by Transportation Alternatives, Streetsblog and the city Department of Finance violation database. Toggle between school-zone speed cameras (violation code 36), red-light cameras (code 7) and the Both view — plates that cross the DVAP thresholds for both systems (≥15 speed + ≥5 red-light in a single year). Click any row for a full dossier.
Ranked live from NYC Parking Violations Issued
Type
Window
Month
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Base fines = $50 × ticket count (statutory base for school-zone speed and red-light camera violations, flat with no per-violation escalation). Excludes $25 late fee, $25 NYS public safety fee, DMV add-ons, interest, payments and disputes — real billed exposure can run 1.5×+ for unpaid plates. See methodology.
03 — Escalation curves
Most keep going past 15
Cumulative tickets for the top 10 plates, with the DVAP legal threshold at 15. Most cross it early in the year and keep accumulating.
Cumulative camera tickets — top 10 plates
Under the Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program (Local Law 5 of 2020), any car with 15+ school-zone speed tickets in a rolling 12-month window is legally eligible to be booted or impounded. Enforcement has been sparse: the program has booted fewer than a few hundred cars since its 2020 launch.
04 — Plate lookup
Type a plate. See the record.
Every plate is a public accountability record. Search below, or open a dossier by appending ?plate=LFC3742&state=NY to this URL.
Total camera tickets
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In FY2026
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DVAP status
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Vehicle
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First violation
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Most recent
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Ticket timeline
Hour of day
05 — Where the tickets land
Where the tickets cluster
Each circle is a camera-bearing intersection, sized by ticket volume in the selected window. Coordinates come from geocoding the top ~500 intersections across every fiscal year in the pvqr-7yc4-family datasets; individual violation rows have no lat/lon.
Camera ticket density by intersection — FY2026
06 — Temporal patterns
When the cameras catch them
New York City's speed cameras have operated 24/7 since August 2022. Hour-of-day and day-of-week breakdowns use FY2026 tickets with a valid issue_date.
Tickets by hour of day (FY2026 sample)
Tickets by day of week (FY2026)
07 — Same places, same people
Speed camera density vs. pedestrian + cyclist casualties
Cross-referencing speed-camera violations against NYPD crash records, normalized per 100,000 residents so borough size doesn't drown out rate. Boroughs ranked by ticket rate. Do the hotspots line up?
Speed-camera tickets and pedestrian+cyclist casualties per 100,000 residents
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08 — DVAP simulator
How many drivers would be eligible for booting?
The DVAP statute sets the threshold at 15 school-zone speed tickets in 12 months. Drag the sliders to see how the eligible cohort changes.
Plates over threshold
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Share of ~2M NYC-registered vehicles
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Estimated fine exposure
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DVAP legal threshold is 15 / 12 months. Since the program's 2020 launch, enforcement has been limited, as Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog have documented.