Arghhhhhhhh!

Ok, so I've had my fair share of tickets. Mostly speeding tickets back when I was young and dumb. Not once did I ever get pulled over and NOT get a ticket. Every time I was pulled over it was inevitable I would be getting a ticket. (Last year was the first time I've ever gotten pulled over and not been given a ticket. Interesting...considering what happened last year :) as some of you may know) I have never tried to talk myself out of it, just give me the ticket. I'd take the ticket and pay the fine. It's been almost 5 years since my last ticket. That is a huge deal for me, considering at one point I was thisclose to having my license taken away. Yesterday I was driving home from Costco, (which was a pointless trip anyway because the pharmacy was closed!) and got pulled over. What for? Failing to yield to a pedestrian (in a wheelchair). Now before you go and think that I'm the worst person in the world for not yielding to a pedestrian, let alone a pedestrian in a wheelchair (are they still called a pedestrian if they're in a wheelchair?), let me explain. Oh, and by the way, it's not like I hit her or anything, I just didn't stop to let her cross.
Anyone who is familiar with the North Salt Lake, Woods Cross, Bountiful area knows that the intersection at the 2600 S I15 Exit/Entrance is f*cked up. That is, when you're heading west on 2600 S you go under the freeway and must either go left onto 1100 S or right onto 800 W. I was going left through the green light and by the time I saw the lady it was too late for me to stop and let her pass. I could have slammed on my brakes and stopped directly in her path, making her veer further into traffic to go around me. I obviously didn't do this and just kept going, as did the car ahead of me. It's not like I wasn't paying attention and didn't see her at all. People going East were stopped at the light, so she was crossing behind these stopped cars therefore blocking her from my view until I started into the left turn. And remember she's in a wheelchair so it's not exactly easy to see her crossing behind stopped cars if she's not taller than the cars. Another thing, this is happening right at dusk, heading West into the sun. So the cop pulled me and the car ahead of me over. I honestly didn't think he was going to give us tickets given the circumstances. He asked me if I saw the lady in the wheelchair trying to cross the street and I said yes, but by the time I saw her I was looking at her through my driver's side window and didn't want to slam on my brakes right there. So he took my info and brought me back a ticket. I have never fought a ticket in my life. That's because I know I have always been in the wrong. I will fight this ticket. I'm not going to f*ck up almost 5 years of ticket free driving for a failure to yield to a pedestrian ticket that isn't completely justified. The point is no, I didn't yield to this pedestrian, but how do you yield for somebody when by the time you see them you are already past them? And it's not like I hit her! Had she been in my direct path, ya I would have seen her and stopped! She wasn't exactly crossing in the smartest place. She could have crossed in a different spot that would have not been nearly as dangerous for her, or for us drivers.