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A Saab 9-3 SS mounted a curb, flipped, and struck a crossing guard

Saab 9-3 crash

At the beginning of this week in the Canadian city of London, there was a strange accident involving one Saab 9-3 SportSedan. According to local eyewitnesses, A black Saab 9-3 sits on it’s roof in the intersection of Andover and Viscount.

Fire crews had to free the driver by cutting the seatbelts that held her in place. The driver and a child from the Saab were also taken to hospital, but they have no injuries.  The car has a built in roll cage for that purpose. Any of the new cars today would get crushed. When a saab is dropped on it’s roof you can still open all the doors.

A policeman friend of the family commented on our choice of cars years ago that in all his years of being a traffic officer, whenever he’d found a saabinvolved in an accident he had tested the theory, and every time, every door opened.

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Saab on roof

Middlesex London Paramedic service crews then transported her and another woman to hospital.  The other woman was a crossing guard. Why it happened still isn’t known but tire tracks in the grass tell part of the story the car was headed North on Andover approaching Viscount in South London.

Saab on roof

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It then left the road going across a sidewalk before hitting an embankment and flipping over. Witnesses say that’s when Ruth was hit sending her flying.

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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