OT-A Speeding Ticket/Totaled My Car: Maybe I Shoud Walk!

Hi all. If what I've heard is true, Steve Perry will be releasing a new album sometime next year. Yay!!
My chances of affording front row tickets, should the chance arise? Not so much.
Last month I got a ticket for doing twenty miles over the limit. Which was not great, but okay, at with a lawyer I had chan ce of getting it dropped. And at least I still had my health and my car. Now, I have my health, albelt a sore one, but no car. On my way to work this past Monday I took the shortcut and in doing so went through what I thought was a green light and had a car slam into the passenger side of my car. Luckily there were no passengers, no one was seriously hurt, but my three year old, three month just paid off car is DOA. Plus I got a ticket. A witness said I went through a red light and that other driver was coming out into teh intersection from a side road.. I'm not so sure about that because I very distinctally remember seeing a green light and seeing teh car that hit me pull out of the store not the road beside. Still it's the word of the witness against mine. And in this instance, and according to the police report I was not speeding. I was going 35 in a 50 mile zone, 28 miles at impact.
Has anyone here had a similar experience? Could I lose my license? The speeding ticket court date comes first and my lawyer said they are two seperate issues and that one won't effect the other. Since I've had an otherwise clean record, he says he can get the speeding ticket dropped altogether. Still I don't know. It's been a crappy two months to be sure. I live in NC.
My chances of affording front row tickets, should the chance arise? Not so much.
Last month I got a ticket for doing twenty miles over the limit. Which was not great, but okay, at with a lawyer I had chan ce of getting it dropped. And at least I still had my health and my car. Now, I have my health, albelt a sore one, but no car. On my way to work this past Monday I took the shortcut and in doing so went through what I thought was a green light and had a car slam into the passenger side of my car. Luckily there were no passengers, no one was seriously hurt, but my three year old, three month just paid off car is DOA. Plus I got a ticket. A witness said I went through a red light and that other driver was coming out into teh intersection from a side road.. I'm not so sure about that because I very distinctally remember seeing a green light and seeing teh car that hit me pull out of the store not the road beside. Still it's the word of the witness against mine. And in this instance, and according to the police report I was not speeding. I was going 35 in a 50 mile zone, 28 miles at impact.
Has anyone here had a similar experience? Could I lose my license? The speeding ticket court date comes first and my lawyer said they are two seperate issues and that one won't effect the other. Since I've had an otherwise clean record, he says he can get the speeding ticket dropped altogether. Still I don't know. It's been a crappy two months to be sure. I live in NC.