Aside from the normal speeding ticket fee that you would expect from receiving any type of traffic citation, you may incur additional costs and fees, particularly if you choose to contest your speeding ticket in court. Mounting a full fight against a speeding ticket can result in a very time-consuming, months-long process. If you must take off work in order to attend multiple court hearings, plus spend time doing research to build your case, you may be spending more than you would if you had simply paid the speeding ticket fee to begin with. Likewise, if you hire an attorney to represent you in traffic court, you run the risk of running up large attorneys' fees bills. Depending on the results of your defense, you may end up paying the speeding ticket fee anyway. So, before you insist on contesting that speeding ticket, be sure that doing so is truly in your best financial interest.