In Ma. you always "fight" it. Go to the hearing! Lots of things can help you out. A couple months ago I had a lane violation and no seat belt on. There was alot of people there with tickets for the lane violation offense, my town set up an area where one lane merges into two and were busting balls at it. People with good driving records got them dismissed or lowered. Some tickets were not fully written out by the police and dismissed
Mine had no time on it THANK YOU Dismissed!