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Yesterday (As of 9 minutes ago, the day before yesterday) I was in quite the serious car accident.

Wounding was not serious, but the car sustained FATAL injuries.

We were sitting in piles of traffic (from our amazingly stupid yearly state fair) on one of minnesota's most populated stretches of tar, when the light turns green. generally what you do when a light turns green is go forward, which is what everyone did... AT FIRST. A few cars ahead of us someone decides to SCREECH TO A STOP!!!!!

Nevertheless, our car is quite the low rise ********, and it fit right pleasantly under the screeching b***h's gas guzzler (SUV -- Sucking Utility Vehicle) smashing everything under the hood (I.E. The car's vital organs) back toward the faithful driver and passenger (me) of the car.

The air bags did their whole chemical explosion routine, and deployed. Not quite in time to save the beautiful me from bashing her head into the windshield. Injuries sustained by me are thankfully limited, but I am currently experiencing the worst headaches I have ever lived through.

The chemicals from the air bag (they create a mini explosion upon impact to deploy the lovely life-saving mashmellows) put a great big burn and bruise on my mother's (the driver) stomach, a four inch-in-diameter-circle, and a possibly broken bone in her hand. (She doesn't have medical insurance because she is currently unemployed)

So the car's hood is bent forward, and the latch is kind of wedged underneath everything else, rendering it unuse-able, this also pushed the driver's side quater panel into the door, which cannot be opened. The right front light is in shambles, completely shattered, along with everything around it. The windshield is shattered, in a lovely pattern around where I hit, billowing out like a ******** spiderweb.

And it's the scariest ******** spiderweb i have ever laid eyes upon.