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Actress Mayim Bialik taken to hospital after hand, thumb are cut in LA auto accident

By: The Associated Press

Posted: 08/16/2012 12:03 AM | Comments: 0

FILE - This May 16, 2012 file photo shows Actress Mayim Bialik from the show "The Big Bang Theory" attending the CBS network upfront presentation at The Tent at Lincoln Center, in New York. Bialik has been hospitalized after sustaining injuries in a car accident in Hollywood area of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Police spokesman Richard French says the 36-year-old actress sustained severe lacerations to her left hand and thumb shortly before noon Wednesday Aug. 15, 2012, when another car made a left turn and crashed into Bialik's vehicle, activating the air bags. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Mayim Bialik is telling fans on Twitter that she'll keep all her fingers after a car accident in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles sent her to the hospital.

Los Angeles police spokesman Richard French says the 36-year-old actress's left hand and thumb were cut severely. Bialik's husband typed for her that she's in pain but her hand will remain intact.

Police say another car made a left turn and crashed into Bialik's vehicle shortly before noon Wednesday.

The three occupants of the other car suffered minor injuries and left the scene on their own.

French says no citations were issued.

"Blossom" star Bialik has been acting since childhood and stars in "The Big Bang Theory."

She was recently nominated for an Emmy for outstanding supporting actress in a comedy series.

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