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Fight My First Ticket? 128 In 100
I got my first ticket about a week ago where i was going 136 in a 100 zone. I'm guessing that the officer lowered it to 128 because it was my first ticket (i'm 22 and i've been driving since i was 16) and this was his 'warning' for me. Everyone i've known told me to fight a ticket no matter what, but this being my first ticket i don't think it's worth fighting it over ~$100+taxes and maybe having them bump it back up to 136.
The reason i'm asking though is because that was easily the fastest i've ever gone in my life. I only sped up to that because there were two cars almost fighting in front of me and i just tried to get out of their way. Of course i sped up ahead for 5 seconds to get away from them and that's when i got caught. The 'fighters' got away with it and went off. I didn't mention this to the officer because it was my first ticket and i didn't know what to do. I told him it was my first time and he came back and lowered it to 128 so that the fine wasn't too much... Any advise to my long winded question?
Also, if i do decide to fight the ticket, the court is almost 1.5 hours away from my home. Is there anyway to change that place to somewhere closer or would i HAVE to go to the place mentioned? I'll probably just pay the thing if i have to drive down there...
edit: also forgot to mention, it should be 3 demerit points for going 28 over but do they disclose that i was actually going 36 over to my insurance company? I'm sure my insurance won't go up because of this first offence in my 6 years of driving so i hope the 3 points + ~$100 is all that i suffer from this ticket.