If the axle is broken, then I'm gonna assume metal shards are floating around in the gear or transmission oil? isn't that a pretty big risk to drive around on...?

this is a daily driver by the way. i drive the car like a grandma. do hondas break axles out of nowhere? seems kind of shitty to me. my 400+hp car on drag radials has never broken an axle, and my 100hp daily driver might have broken one. what the fuck.