My Cousin's Accident

   My cousin Emma recently got in a car accident. She is from Hammond, Louisiana and the accident happened in Amite on an old country road. She was with her friend Christina, and they were coming home from Christina's birthday party. The girls are both in college and are 19 years old. They were pulling up to Christina's apartment after the party around 12. Then a song they liked came on the radio, they pulled out the driveway to ride around to listen to the song. They didn't go far. It was a foggy night and sometime during the song, one of the car wheels hit a stump. The car then flipped into a ditch.
   Christina and Emma were thrown from the car through the windshield, the car was totaled. Christina was holding Emma when she called some friends to bring them to the emergency room. Emma had a fractured scull, a gash an inch wide and an inch deep from her temple down her cheek to her chin. Her jaw and cheek bones were completely crushed and her eyesight and ear may never be the same on that side of her face. Christina escaped the crash with only scrapes, bruises, and only one cut that needed stitches. Emma is a lucky girl who survived a potentially fatal car accident and had no brain damage. No one knows why this happened, but maybe one day something good will come out of it.