Ok so I just got handed a $456 dollar speeding ticket. I was behind heavy traffic due to construction and i was in a school zone @ 3pm (i know bad start already). I decided to make a legal U-turn and to not slow traffic down i accelerated (first gen n/a xterra and speed, cmon that's an oxymoron). Well what do you know, a police officer pulls me over. Regardless, i know im guilty, apparently he clocked me in 43 in a 20 zone.

$456 dollars seems quite much to me? Anybody have any insight. Im pretty choked considering that that is like a car payment. Are the courts usually good about reducing fines if you appear and plead guilty of the violation?