User blog comment:Legionwrex/How did Saren reach the Citadel?/@comment-6104626-20130527200338

One thing I haven't seen mentioned here - Saren had a lot more time to enter the Conduit than Shepard, and didn't have four Colossi shooting at him as he went. So we could perhaps ascribe some of the Mako's crash to driving at high speed into the Conduit, and some to the lack of time to do whatever kind of "aiming" gets done at a Mass Effect Relay.

That still leaves me saying "hmmmm", especially since if *I* enter on foot I get instakilled. So I'll definitely award LegionWrex at least a Silver Star of plot-hole-finding. I guess he could have gone "in" an Armature or something, but then we'd probably have had to fight the Armature or at least look at its wreckage.