Most of your replies are not very helpful. He was trying to make our curfew for him. He should have left his girlfriend’s earlier or called that he was going to be late. We have life360 and watch his speed often and he usually does really well. Life360 doesn’t say he was going 95 that day but courts likely won’t care. His car also doesn’t have cruise which many of you likely rely on to keep from speeding. He does work on a farm. He works with cows and pigs. Yes he detasseled corn 2 summers in a row. That also takes someone driving him to the pickup spot.
Those are excuses. He's old enough and responsible enough to know better.
You can't hold his hand forever. If he faces the consequences of this one, he will have the experience to remind himself in the future that driving safely is more important.
And, as things go, this is a fairly tame one to let him tough it out and learn. You don't want to be like the idiot parent that protested her son's license getting suspended after causing an accident that puts another person in a coma for 3 months, because "I need him to drive himself around."
You don't have to drive him. He is old enough to ask others to drive him around.
I concur with commentator. Going in with the big guns, especially if you are in a rural area, might be off-putting.
Because of your son's age, I would assume that he has already been in a driving/driver safety course. (Otherwise I would suggest such a course.) I suspect that he is more likely to be treated leniently in this situation if he is be able to credibly convey that he is aware of his error and is addressing the cause, so that there will not be a repeat offense.
The no-brainer advice is, when in court, to dress and act respectfully. (<- One would think this is obvious, and I get the sense that you would expect your son to do this.)