I was driving on 66 W and I had the flu. Just as I started to feel like I was going to throw-up, I hit grid-lock traffic. I noticed that the rest area was only about a mile away so I pulled onto the shoulder and drove past the traffic attempting to get to the bathroom. Two motorcycle cops pulled me over. I was obviously sick (I was dry heaving out of the door) and all they asked me was if I needed an ambulance. I told them no, I needed to get off the road and get sick and go home and get in bed. After a few minutes they gave me a summons to go to court and lectured me about driving on the shoulder. I am really scared because this is my first time having to go to court, actually, I have a clean driving record, only an HOV ticket when I didn't know about it, and my job depends on having a license. If you have any advice on how to deal with this it would be greatly appreciated.

