The First Speeding Ticket

On January 28, 1896, the first speeding ticket was issued in East Peckham, England.

Walter Arnold owed one shilling plus court costs for speeding through the village in an Arnold Benz Motor Carriage.

He was stopped by a policeman on a bicycle. Arnold’s reckless speed was 8 miles per hour, a whopping 6 miles over the speed limit.

Exactly 42 years later, the World Land Speed Record on a public road would be broken by Rudolph Caracciola, driving his Mercedes-Benz 268.9 mes per hour.