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Saab Saved Two People in In Fatal Wrong-Way Crash

Goran Aničić
February 8, 2016Goran Aničić2 commentsSAAB 9-3Saab safety
Saab saved two in the head-on crash with a Chevy SUV

State police say the police from the Detroit enclave of Hamtramck were chasing the SUV Chevrolet Tahoe about 2 a.m. Wednesday when the vehicle got on the freeway. Hamtramck police ended their pursuit, but the SUV kept going.

Police say the SUV collided with a 2007 Saab 9-3 2.0T SportSedan occupied by two people. The driver and passenger of the Saab 9-3 he crashed into survived. A wrong-way driver fleeing from police was killed (Police identify him as 25-year-old Tibias Kwame Anderson) on southbound I-75 after he was ejected from his truck when it collided with Saab.

Saab 9-3 wrack
Saab 9-3 wreck

That was right around the time Travis Sparling, 21, left his parent’s home in Sterling Heights to take his girlfriend, Brittany Bombard, 21, home. When Anderson entered the southbound lanes going north at Caniff, police stopped their pursuit, but the driver continued going the wrong way for about about a mile before colliding with a Saab.

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Sparling and Bombard from Saab were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital. “I can’t believe they’re alive,” said Mark Sparling, Travis’ father. “He thought it was a dream. He just kept saying to me, ‘I was just trying to avoid him, but every time I kept moving away he kept coming at me.’”

Destroyed Chevy Tahoe in Direct Crash with Saab 9-3
Destroyed Chevy Tahoe in Direct Crash with Saab 9-3
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Goran Aničić
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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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