Mooby Needs Legal Advice

[mooby]

I got into some serious legal shtein early this morning around 2:30ish. I was chilling at my friend Kory's house and he got a phone call from another friend, and his friend told him that this chick we knew (Felicia) was on the phone with her a few minutes ago and it sounded like she had od'd on some drugs again. We tried contacting her by phone, but she didn't pick up, so Kory and I decided we should drive up to Falls Church and check up on her to see if she's ok.

Well, I was on 395 near Woodbridge, and everyone was going about 80 even though the speed limit was 60, and for about 5 seconds I decided it wouldn't hurt to go 90, since I've never done anything like that before and I decided it couldn't hurt. Well, needless to say, I got pulled over and the state trooper clocked me at 90 in a 60. It said I have to appear in court to defend this charge of reckless driving.

So now I have a court date set for September 5th, and I was online looking at things, and my dad told me because I got pulled over for speeding in a highway safety corridor $500 would be added to my fine in addition to the speeding ticket. I looked at this site my friend showed me and it said because of the new laws Virginia passed that went into effect July 1st, I could be paying anywhere from 500-1500 basically. This is my first offense, I've never been pulled over for anything before and I don't have a criminal record.

Do you guys have any advice for me? I told the trooper that I didn't need him to call for an ambulance to send to my friends house, because I would probably get in trouble if she wasn't od'ing, and if she was od'ing then she would get in deep shit. She's od'd like once in the past before but me and my friends went to her house and helped her out, we went online and got advice and we stayed with her throughout the night until she was able to calm down.

I don't know how i'm gonna be able to pay this fine, I'm working at Domino's right now but when I go to work on Sunday there's a very good chance i'm gonna get laid off because they drastically cut back my hours and they don't have a need for 2 out of the 3 CSR's that work there. I need a new job but i don't know how i'm gonna be able to pay for a fine that huge.