Ticket for Running Flashing Red Light - Effect on Insurance?

So a week or so ago I was driving and I came across a newly built traffic light on a street with minimal traffic. I didn't have my own car yet so I was driving my dad's. I admittedly wasn't certain about the rule for flashing red lights and thought that it meant yield, so I slowed down, but not to a complete stop, to check if any cars were around me and seeing that there weren't any I went ahead. But there was a cop hiding on the street perpendicular to mine and I ended up getting my first ever ticket for $100. The police officer told me that a flashing red light was the equivalent of a stop sign, and from some articles that I've read, running a stop sign doesn't increase insurance much. I also have an option of doubling the fine to $200 and wiping the ticket off of my record since it's my first violation. Anyways I'm just wondering if it would be better to just pay the $100 and live with the ticket for 3 years, pay $200 and get the ticket off of my record, or try and fight it in court. Would insurance usually increase for first tickets like this and if it does would it exceed $100? I'm 17, live in Kansas and have already taken Drivers Ed if that helps.