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The car wrapped around a tree due to the force of the impact

Saab wrapped around tree

An irresponsible young man who drove a Saab 9-5 station wagon twenty days ago under the influence of alcohol is more lucky than smart. A disturbing but at the same time instructive story comes to us from Sweden.

Namely, on June 24, a traffic accident occurred on the local road in Skateholm outside Trelleborg, in which a young man was injured. It is extremely fortunate that, according to the first information, there were no fatal injuries, although the Saab car was destroyed beyond recognition.

A young man drove off the road and got stuck a meter up in a tree where he was pinned. Due to the great force of the impact, his Saab simply wrapped around the tree. In one of the curves, the driver entered the curve too fast and due to the slippery road, he ran off the road at high speed, and hit a tree with the passenger’s side. The car is hanging a meter high, it has crashed into a tree like a wedge.

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Fortunately, no one was in the passenger seat, and the driver suffered serious injuries, but at least he survived. He is suspected of drunk driving. He was awake and talking when an ambulance took him to hospital. On this occasion, an investigation was opened to determine what exactly happened.

This is a warning to all drivers, especially young drivers, to be responsible both to themselves and to others, and not to consume alcohol and opiates if they drive motor vehicles in public traffic.

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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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