Ticket for medical emergency

I had posted another thread and you guys gave me a lot so I will throw this one out there to you. I have a clean 10 year MVR nothing on it at all. I was trying to go thru Schneider to get my CDL. Here is my issue. In June of this year I was taking a kid in the church home when he went into a full blown seizure. I was 1.8 miles from a hospital when this happened. I ran 2 red lights to get him there asap. A SC state trooper saw me and followed me to the hospital (no blue lights). We got the kid out of the car and they took him straight to the back. The trooper said that it didn't matter that there was a medical emergency I am not able to run red lights no matter that I checked both ways or not or if there was an medical issue. He gave me a 6 point ticket and charged me with wreckless driving and a 200.00 fine.

Well I called and talked to a friend of mine on the local force and he contacted the state trooper. They just called me and said that what he will do is have me go to court and ask for a jury trial. They then will reduce it to something less that won't screw up my CDL training before the trial. This will take about 2 months to do. Schneider just told me to call them when all that goes away because they can't have anything pending when I am hired. I called Maverick who I was also dealing with and they said it was not a problem since my MVR is clean and said they would call me in the morning after they looked at my App. I had sent them. I told him that it would be about 2 months before it was all said and done.

My question is am I screwed. They said they will reduce it to like a illegal lane change and 2 points or speeding with 2 points. Should I push now harder to go with Maverick if they will have me or what. I need you guys to advise me. Maverick said that it will be at least 2 months before they can send me to a school because they are that busy (unless someone canceled). I wait to hear what you think!

 

^ The Problem is with that is I am self employed. Work in my business goes away in about 1 month (fall) that is why I had planned to go to the school now! I was going to sub out my accounts to someone els when work comes back around in the spring so i can still keep both. I would sell my business to the other guy if I decided that I didn't ever want to go back to it.

 

^ Thanks. I will tell you in this county when you go to the court date you can ask for a bench trial or a jury trial. If you go to a jury trial they will do a pre trial first before it ever gets to a jury so you can try to settle it. If you do a bench trial then the judge does it right there. My police friend called and spoke to the SP and he said that it was OK with him to reduce it but we would have to wait for the pre trial so the solicitors office can authorize it so it won't look bad on him for rewriting the ticket. As far as proof I have all my ducks in a row on that one.

 

I have lived in Greenville, SC now for 30 years next month. Heck I can't argue about any were els because I have never lived any were els. Lets say I did call a lawyer how long will that take for them to fix the issue?

 

How long would all that take and how much would you think that all that will cost? I was also told by my police friend that he was training a guy that day and that may have had a lot to do with it as well.