Always liked this page on TSN. It's hard to find, but under FAQs, it's called "Saabs Save Lives". All stories (mostly c900) of crashes - obviously these are the ones told by the survivors. Everyone who posted lived with minor injuries. Here are a couple that looked particularly interesting:
http://www.saabnet.com/tsn/ssl/
I was rear ended by a tractor trailer which in turn pushed me out of my lane into on coming traffic. The car from the opposite lane was going 70 and I must have been doing 40 or so after the collision. It was a massive collision. Most of the force of the impact was on my front side and due to the laws of physics, ballistics & collision, my car redirected the force by spinning around 180 degrees coming to rest facing the opposite direction of collision. This along with SAAB engineering is why I am alive and walking. That is twice these cars have saved my family from excessive harm. I was in the hospital for a week, in a wheel chair for 4 months and crutches for 4 months. I have quite a few extraneous surgical grade bolts in right foot to hold it together and a few scars, above my left eye (broke my drivers window), and 12 stitches under my chin(broke my steering wheel). The other cars (Del Sol) occupant did not make it and the truck driver after a week or so disappeared into thin air.
Friday night after a 90 hour work week and half way through my hour drive home..it happened...BANG...that's all I heard, when I came to, I saw a tree about 3 inches from my face, and I was on my side, the seat belt was holding me in and I tried to reach for my cell phone, had to call some one, call my wife, call anybody....all the phone said was "no service", stupid phone...After fighting my way out of the car and walking up the bank onto the street...it hit me...Oh my god...my car...It was a country back road so I was alone... I started to walk down the street, maybe if I walked I could get this cell phone to get a signal. I was shaken up, about 20 feet down the road I decided to sit for awhile and keep trying the phone.
During this time I didn't see the car stop and the driver get out, he went down to my Saab and was yelling...Is everyone all right!? Anyone hurt!? I didn't answer, I was to busy trying that stupid phone. Then I heard another car and another, I heard... look for a body... there has to be a body somewhere...they had to get thrown from the car! No one could of lived through that.....Look for bodies!
I walked back towards the car, before anyone could fall into that bank and get hurt, still shaking up a bit I said "I'm your body", I'm the driver....He asked was there anyone else? no I said I'm it.... After about 20 minutes the police, fire department and an ambulance showed up...The fire department cut her positive cable, the Medic had me sit in the ambulance and looked me over, he said, if he didn't know any better he would of never guessed I was driving that car, he said I should be dead....my answer...it's a Saab...maybe not the most intelligent answer, but it was true... Finally the police...He asked were you drinking? some one hit you? what happened? I fell asleep, I fell asleep and wrecked my Saab, my baby, my dream car.....Unsafe movement to the right, a warning....He took me home.
Still think about that night once in awhile...that car saved my life....I hope if it ever happens again that my 9000 will do the same for me, I won't be driving anything else, I've been sold for life.
This one only says: As reported in the Bangor Daily News, the woman in this crash suffered no major injuries.
