R.I.P. HONDA!!!

As many of you may know....Today marked the last day in the life of my Honda Accord! This little car had a great run! We shared many trips to work and back together and he never gave me any car trouble (which is more than most can say about their cars). This morning on the way to work the Accord went out in a blaze of glory. While driving south on I-15 this morning I was just passing the refineries, right where the freeway bends around into SLC, when I hit a patch of black ice!!! (result of yesterdays snow storm and last night's cold temperatures!) When I hit the ice I was in the far left lane. I don't know if you are familiar with the area where I am talking about, but there is no shoulder what so ever on the sides of the road. So with my car sliding out of control I could do nothing but brace for the impact. When I hit the left side median my car proceeded to climb up the wall so that my car was litterally grinding the wall. (if anyone is going that direction look for the tire marks on the top of the wall on the left side.....that was me) I couldn't see anything at this point because my airbag went off when I hit the wall. Somehow my car didn't roll and it came down off of the wall. After falling off the median wall on the right side, my car flew across all three lanes of traffic and slammed into the wall on the opposite side of the freeway. The most amazing part of all of this, and the part that I am most thankful for is that there were no other cars involved in my accident. The whole time I kept thinking to myself, "please don't hit anyone else." Even though the freeway was really busy at the time, and there were cars all over the place, I managed to manuver everyone and not hit any other cars. After the chaos stopped I did a quick check of all my body parts and slapped my self a little to make sure I was still here :) A nice road construction man, who i never got his name, ran to my car to make sure everything was ok. He stayed with me until the Highway Patrol and paramedics showed up. He started directing traffic to prevent any further congestion on the freeway. Because I was in the middle of the freeway, with no shoulder, I caused quite the traffic jam! (My appologies to anyone who may have been late to work because of this. ) Anyways, the HP and paramedics showed up and helped clean up the wreck. The highway patrolman was actually not very nice about the whole situation and finished off the whole ordeal by giving me a ticket for.....Improper Lane Travel..... Can you believe that? I wasn't exactly happy. But that is a story for another day. So as you can see from the photos the poor Honda had his final run today. He took the crash like a champ and allowed me to walk away from this all. Some people who stopped said they were amazed I didn't end up in the hospital. I have no doubt that I had atleast one, if not more, guardian angel in my car with me today. I am so thankful that I was not injured, and more importantly that no one else was involved in the wreck. I just want all of my friends and family to know how much I love them! And I want to ask everyone to Please WEAR YOUR SEATBELTS everytime you get in the car!!!!!! (I'm glad I did) :)