Institutions such as NHTSA, IIHS, or Euro NCAP regularly assess two aspects of the safety of new cars in their tests: crashworthiness – how well a vehicle protects its occupants – and collision avoidance and mitigation, but all under strictly controlled – experimental conditions. This type of testing often does not give the right test results because it cannot include all possible influences and factors that occur in a car collision, such as road conditions, slipperiness, air temperature, impact angle and of course vehicle speed, which is completely variable compared to fixed speed on the tests themselves.
Yet, Crashworthiness as the car’s ability to protect occupants from injury in the event of a crash is proven and demonstrated in real life. That is why we are trying to show as many characteristic examples in this section of the blog in which Saab cars have proven their impact resistance and crashworthiness.
Last night, the police of the Polish city of Lublin noticed another case like this in which the Saab 9-3 proved its crashworthiness, fortunately for the driver who was obviously driving at high speed. Miraculously, the unfortunate driver of this Saab survived this severe collision with a metal pole, and was transported to the hospital for examination.
Incompatibility of the speed to the prevailing conditions is the initial cause of the accident that took place on one of the streets in Lublin. The accident happened on Tuesday at around 9 p.m. on Al. Racławickie in Lublin. In a location near the local barracks, a Saab 9-3 car crashed into a pole. The fire brigade, the emergency medical team and the police intervened on the spot.
Preliminary findings show that the man driving the Saab was moving from the direction of the Honorowe Blood Donors roundabout. On a slight curve of the road, he lost control of the vehicle. The speeding car fell out of the road and then crashed into a trolleybus pole.
The driver was trapped in the wreckage of the vehicle. In order to evacuate it, firefighters had to use specialized road rescue tools. Then the man was taken into the care of paramedics. He was transported to the hospital.
The breathalyzer test showed that the driver was sober. He was traveling alone. Police officers are working all the time on the spot and they determine the detailed circumstances of the incident.
Came here to read about new Saab/NEVS vehicles as i still hope to see some new. Then I saw my 19t Saab crashed :O Im all good, just few stiches on my body, not single break in my bones. Its my first car, feeling of loss is overwhelming, still im happy to be alive and able to walk.
Glad that you are okay. Likely fortunate that you were in a Saab when this happened.
One of my friends had an accident with his 9-3 some years ago. The car was trapped under a long city bus. The firefighters were cutting up the flat-out car, and my friend got out of the wreck with scratches. Another friend was sitting on that bus, he saw the whole thing.
Nothing services a pole and also how fast was it going
Saab was a world leader on small overlap crashes with its broader front structures. First to deploy the side curtains even in frontal impacts in the New 9-3 to avoid impacting the head into the oncoming vehicle/object like in this crash. Seen in our unic Saab Real-life crash follow up. This crash is one of the worst I have seen so might have exceeded what to survive without severe injuries!?
Looks like a outrageously disrespectful idiot driver to me, driving at speeds like that on a city street. Since it’s a Saab we know what kind of force it must have taken to thrash the car like that. Since he survived he should go to the track next time he wants to do speeds like that, and drive another brand than Saab so he doesn’t destroy more examples.
The deceleration in that crash means the driver probably had life changing injuries.
They don’t make them like that any more!
If one drive like this…no one car type will help
they don’t make them at all anymore