What state do you live in? In California, if you fight a ticket, and the cop doesn't show up to the court date or doesn't do HIS paperwork in response to you fighting it, you automatically win. It's like that in a lot of places.

I did that once when I was pulled over for speeding. I was in a rush and going about 15 over. I got pulled over and as he was writing the ticket I broke down crying because I was having money issues. He felt bad and told me he would take it back, but since he already wrote it, he couldn't. He told me to fight it and he just wouldn't show up and I would win. I did it, made some lame excuse in my "fight", he never showed up and I won just like he said I would.

Try to fight it. It can't hurt.