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It always never hurts to show up at court. Most times they will either take off point(s) (depending on where you live) or reduce your ticket amount or both. I went 17 over (20 over is considered wreck-less driving and really bad) once and went to court and got both reduced but still had to pay the court fees. End up paying a little over $100 (b/c court fees were like $60 something). I would have paid a lot more had I not gone. It just sucks to have to go there and confront the cop who pulled you over. If you're lucky, he/she doesn't show up! Mine did. Grr... Haha!

Oh, and depending on where you live, you can get points taken off by going to traffic school. I know they do that in CA from when I lived there before. Depending on how many points you get it could go back to your insurance and then your premiums might go up. I live in VA now and the laws are a little different here. We actually have good driving records (1 point for every year you don't get a ticket) so I was lucky that I had enough good driving points that brought me back down to zero where I want to be at.

Good luck!