Looking for some advice here

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hello /o/, lurker here looking for some quick advice if anyone has dealt with a similar situation.

the other day I was driving home from work and to make a long story short, i ended up clipping this guys car with my mirror at a measly 5mph while trying to get onto a right lane as he was making space for me but then abruptly stopped. my mirror folded itself as i drove past and the dude jumps out of the car taking pictures of my license plate. he comes up to my passenger window and i roll it down and i tell him to pull over to the side. the guy just looks at me with this stupid face and some hand gestures and i tell him again just pull over to the side. at this point he's behind me and when the light turns green, i make a right turn into the CVS lot and he instead decides to drive off. i get out of the car to see if anything actually happened and there isn't even a transfer of paint (car mirror has that rubber portion underneath).

fast forward a few days and i get a mass amount of tickets from that city's police department for

>careless driving
>leaving scenes of an accident
>traffic on marked lanes (???? it was clearly a two lanes)
>failure to wear seatbelt (??? lol)
>following too closely (wasn't even following)
>failure to possess drivers license (again, LOL)
>failure to possess registration and insurance (just lol)

and now i have a court date. what are my options here without resorting to lawyering up and wasting my time. its crazy that some sore loser went through the effort to do this.