This was before my Isuzu (best I can do for content).

Years ago, I was 3rd in line at a stoplight one night. The road was three lanes wide on each side in Mesa, AZ.

It turned green, we all left, accellerating and spreading out as we worked up to 45 mph.

About 50 yards past the light, the guy in front of me slammed on his brakes. I slammed on mine. He came to a dead stop. I came to a dead stop--after I hit his rear end. It wasn't a setup, the guy didn't see that some prankster had but a white/orange reflective construction barracade in the road until the last second; the car in front of him had simply driven around it but the guy I hit was boxed in and just slammed the brakes.

I was at fault, same reason as you (following too close). I went to the library, pulled the lawbook, copied the pages, and went to court. I argued to the judge that on that same street, there were sidewalks with no "break" between the sidewalk and the street (sidwalks ran up against the street). By the letter of the law, if I was doing 45 mph and a kid riding their bicycle towards me fell into the street 5 feet in front of me, I was responsible to stop.

He agreed this was both the legal law, and impossible under the laws of physics.

I then explained the dynamics of stoplights, and got him and the officers in the room (who wrote the ticket) to agree they both leave a stoplight and slowly spread out. It's a generally accepted practice. (A lawyer her could make a tie into generally accepted legal precidents; there's a legal name for it. I didn't.)

I then tied the brake slamming into an unexpected event that was beyond my control, much like the kid on a bike. The judge agreed, and dismissed the ticket.

With that being said, there was no fine, no points on my license, nothing. But in the insruance companies eyes, I was still 100% at fault and had to pay. To hire a lawyer to fight it would cost even more, even with a police report and the "mad braker's" personal statement.

As an aside, many times insurance companies ignore witneses and go with the physical evidence, as no matter what, people will generally lie to back up their friends. More so if they're relatives. Not a lot of personal integrity in this world.

Your damage doesn't look too bad, but a lot of minor worok to fix. Stout front end. Mostly, I'm glad no one was hurt.