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High Speed Chase in Stolen Saab 9-3 Ends With Audi shunted onto railings

Crashed Saab 9-3 Sportcombi

One of the main roads through Salford (UK) was shut for several hours on Thursday evening when a police pursuit ended in a dramatic smash. Policemans say they began pursuing a stolen silver Saab 9-3 Sportcombi before it came off the A6 in Swinton at around 6.45pm, hitting a number of parked cars.

Luckily, in this incident no one has been seriously injured. PC Picton said the Saab 9-3 collided with a Škoda, an Audi and then a Mazda.

Saab 9-3 after crash

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Pictures from the scene on Manchester Road showed an Audi wedged on a set of metal railings in front of a row of buildings. PC Matt Picton said it was parked, but was shunted up a street sign and onto the railings. Thankfully, no-one was in the Audi at the time.

A GMP spokesman confirmed no one was seriously in the collision, on the stretch of the A6 between Dorchester Road and Worsley Road. One man has been arrested on suspicion of theft of a vehicle and taken into custody for questioning, police confirmed. Stolen Saab pursued by two unmarked traffic vehicles, luckily minor injuries only but extensive damage caused, one arrested and currently in custody

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Goran Aničić
the authorGoran Aničić
For over 15 years, Goran Aničić has been passionately focused on Saab automobiles and everything related to them. His initial encounter with Saab cars took place back in 2003 when the first Saab 9-3 and sedan version were introduced. At that moment, he was captivated by the car's Scandinavian design logic and top-notch engineering, and everything that followed stemmed from that first encounter. Later on, through his work at the editorial team of the Serbian automotive magazines "Autostart" and later "AutoBild," he had the opportunity to engage more closely with Saab vehicles. In 2008, he tested the latest Saab cars of that time, such as the Saab 9-3 TTiD Aero and Saab 9-3 Turbo X. In 2010, as the sole blogger from the region, he participated in the Saab 9-5ng presentation in Trollhättan, Sweden. Alongside journalists from around the world, he got a firsthand experience of the pinnacle of technological offerings from Saab at that time. Currently, Goran owns two Saabs: a 2008 Saab 9-3 Vector Sportcombi with a manual transmission, and a Saab 9-3 Aero Griffin Sport Sedan from the last generation, which rolled off the production line in Trollhättan in December 2011.

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