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first, is it driveable? Did one wheel impact more than the others? When you drive, does it pull to one side? If you apply brakes does it pull one way or the other? Does it ‘crab walk’ like it’s no longer traveling straight down the road but sort of points either left or right at what appears to be a few degrees off? Does it gyrate? Do you feel wobbles, at high mid or low speed? Do you feel wobbles when you apply the brakes? Does the steering wheel turn the same distance in both directions? If you look at the car front on, do any of the wheels appear to tip inward or outward at the top? Does one appear to turn in further than the other? Be cognizant, tires do have a little tip in at the top, but on the order of a couple degrees only. Like barely perceptible. Look at the car side on now. Pay attention to the gap between the tire and the fender. Is the gap equidistant all the way around? Check both sides.

Take your foot and push on the top of the tire (@12 o clock position). REALLY push hard. Does the whole thing seem firm, does it seem sorta wiggly and sloppy when you do so?

I am asking in attempt to eliminate issues with the front clip. Bent tie rods, broken A arms, strut towers etc.

You drive a car without a whole lot of inertia, and at a low enough speed head on, the tire will absorb some of the jarring impact without popping. It’s possible you skirted disaster.

Don't be embarrassed just take it as a learning experience and be happy nobody was standing there when you gave the curb a kiss.

Hopefully you got lucky. I would probably plan to schedule a wheel alignment in the near future when you can afford it just to be cautious. That is, if I were being all super responsible and stuff. Likely I'd just chill and pay extra close attention to how the car behaves while driving, get yourself confident that it is holding a straight line at speed.

I'm no big city mechanic but it should be fine. If you have a jack maybe crawl under it and see if anything looks damaged if you're concerned about it, but if nothing seems off and you don't see any fluids leaking while it's parked I would assume it's good.

check the side of your tire wall for bulging

Not much the mechanic can do until you notice an issue. Just let it ride.

From your description, I think you should be completely fine. Like another poster said, press on the wheel at the top super hard—it should not tilt with the strength of a normal person. If it does tilt, have it checked. If it doesn’t, drive it a bit and you’ll know if something is wrong pretty quickly.

I think you’re fine though!

Even if nothing is obviously wrong, I'd get an alignment whenever you can afford to. If something is slightly bent it could cause uneven tire wear, or sketchy handling.