If you ever need to tow a Saab 9-3 convertible, perhaps don’t do what these two bozos in Texas did. Video from Interstate 610 outside of Houston shows the little Saab being towed by a Ford Expedition backward down the road. Because of, you know, physics, the car swerved back and forth as a terrified person behind the wheel did their best to keep the car straight. Of course, this created quite a hazard for people trying to drive down the road the correct way around. The dangerous situation eventually ended in — you guessed it — a crash.
Police tell ABC13 Houston that the car broke down, and since the driver and his girlfriend didn’t have enough money to call a tow truck, they decided to tow it themselves using a chain. Even in a best-case scenario, flat-towing a car isn’t an easy task, and that’s when it’s facing the correct direction. Unfortunately for them, no one mentioned that. Apparently, at some point, the Saab’s axle broke, and that’s what led to the video we see now.
What were they thinking?
Here’s what one eyewitness told FOX 26 Houston:
“I saw there was a car that was facing the wrong way on the feeder road. There was a white truck in front of it and there was a chain that was attached to the car. But before I pulled into the other lane, I did see a tow truck that pulled out, and then he pulled into the parking lot of the hospital, and I didn’t see him after that,” said [Steve] Nolin. “I thought it was pretty crazy. I’ve seen a lot of crazy things in Houston, but that might take the cake on it,”
Police say the Saab’s “driver,” 32-year-old Dontae Brown, was arrested for an active warrant he had out in Georgia, but he wasn’t given a citation for this case. Let this be a lesson to you all: don’t commit a crime while committing a crime. Brown’s girlfriend, who was driving the SUV, wasn’t arrested. Somehow, now injuries were reported from this situation.
