Man, that aluminum wing held up GREAT! I hope your friend is in at least as good of shape.
One of the LINUX developers that ported that OS to Macintosh got rear-ended in his civic by an SUV, and it's sad to say... it didn't hold up as good. He's alive, but aside from breathing, he can't really do anything else. If you saw the car, you'd swear the driver was killed. You don't want to be rear-ended in a civic. You can think they're designed well for this sort of thing, but really only if they're hit by another civic.
PS: I @$^#%ing hate SUVs.