First road trip, hopefully not the last
Start off, I do have winter tires and was driving slow, it's nothing I could've really done in the moment.
Went up to New Hampshire for the week with some friends and had a great time. Felt like I really got to drive the car as it was intended on back roads and got some photos taken. I'm going to add these here for yall to look at because they did come out good.
Now for the unfortunate part, on the last day it started to snow early morning and I knew that I needed to take it slow heading home. Where I was staying was northern NH and on a relatively winding road. Truthfully I should've left Friday night but my own hubris got the better of me. I was doing about 35~40mph for most of the it, I saw a downward slope that leads into a bend. I went to slow down and felt the car begin to pick up speed. When I reached the bottom, before the turn, I braked as much as I could and turned. Car understeered and I began to do whatever I could to minimize the crash. I ripped the ebrake hoping to slow down any amount, threw the car into neutral hoping to prevent any damage to my clutch/gears, and braced for impact. My car only sustained cosmetic damage in the front and I might have a slight bend in the frame under the passenger front panel. The car hopefully won't be marked as totalled since the air bags didn't go off and I was able to drive the car out of the road.
Nobody was hurt and I'm glad my car protected me, there was definitely things I could've done way before the crash to prevent it but in the moment I did what I could. Sorry for raising y'alls insurance <3