Note: Whilst Saabs are Born from Jets, they cannot fly….
First we had the case of the flying 9-7x…..
Now, another unidentified Saab gone on an airborne adventure in Pittsfield, Maine, in the US.
In one of the more spectacular area car accidents in recent memory, a Burnham man in a Saab sailed off an overpass and landed on a guardrail on Interstate 95.
Franz Spiegel, 43, of Burnham, complained of chest pains, but survived. He was the only person involved in the accident, according to Maine State Trooper Derrick Record.
“When I heard the call, I was expecting a fatal,” he said. “He probably wasn’t going a ridiculous speed for the road, but it was probably too fast for conditions.”
I’m glad we have another driver that’s OK. But please people, stop trying to fly your Saabs!
And if you ever see an accident like this happen, please render assistance:
Several drivers witnessed Spiegel’s Saab slide along six sections of guardrail along the Johnson Flat Road overpass — roughly the width of the two interstate lanes plus the areas on the shoulders — before plummeting to the highway below, Kinney said.
No witnesses stayed at the scene, however.
Poor form, that.



i wonder — if there were several witnesses, yet none stayed to help, how do they know there were any witnesses?
I suspect the driver was witness to the fact that none of the witnesses stayed. But if there’s no corrobarating witnesses to verify his story, then it’s just the witness against the lack of a witness. Did any trees fall in the forest?
The first winter I had my car (the first winter I had any car at all), I assumed that, since my car was from Sweden, I could drive in the snow pretty much the same way I drove in the middle of July.
I can’t believe I’ve never been in a real accident.