I thought I'd be fine without latches and was planning on getting them anyway but it wasn't a priority. After I got my car home I looked into it further and the stock latch and latch on the hood are perfectly intact. I'm not sure what exactly happened, it's as if it just decided to open. No locking mechanism broke which surprised me quite a bit. There was no injury so I'm thankful for that, not many cars on the freeway and since I was already in the slow lane I got over to the emergency lane quite easily.
However the map lights and stuff hit me in the forehead when they got knocked loose, nothing major though just a little pain on my eyebrow. And without further adieu, here's the damage.






