Calgary woman seeks answers after car allegedly hit by armored truck.
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A Calgary woman has lost thousands of dollars after she claims her vehicle was hit by an armored truck while the Calgary Police Tactical Unit was responding to an incident in northwest Calgary.
A Calgary woman has lost thousands of dollars after she claims her vehicle was hit by an armored truck while the Calgary Police Tactical Unit was responding to an incident in northwest Calgary last month.
Mackenzie Hardy says her Hyundai Accent was parked in the driveway in front of her home on 75th Street NW when she and her boyfriend left town for a few days, and when they returned on Dec. 22, the vehicle was not where she expected it to be. . missing. .
She remembers driving down the street and her boyfriend asking her where her car was. "And I said, 'What do you mean, where's my car?' And we were getting closer, and I said, 'Where's my car?'"
Neighbors who live in the Bowness community told Global News that the tactical unit responded to an incident on Dec. 21 in the same building where Hardy lives.
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"And then someone flagged down the car on the sidewalk, because obviously you can't park on the sidewalk, and then they impounded it and gave me a parking ticket for being on the sidewalk."
Samantha Ramsey lives in the neighborhood and said she was walking her dog when the incident happened. "I saw the whole aftermath of the incident, and there was a car that was kind of pushed... almost through the fence there and there was the tactical vehicle in front," Ramsey said.
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In a statement, the city told Global News that it "received notice of a claim on January 15, 2025. The claim was reviewed and investigated in accordance with our usual process."
Calgary police told Global News that they are aware of the incident and confirmed that "a citizen's parked car was struck by a CPS tactical unit vehicle" during a call.
"We have since been in contact with the registered owner of the vehicle and are working with them to resolve the situation as quickly as possible," police said in a statement. Hardy said that since her vehicle was impounded, she has had to pay for a rental car, various utilities and extra gas for her boyfriend's truck.
"(Calgary police and the city) can do their own investigation into what happened because they know there was a major police incident here," Hardy said. "They can do it. Do your job, do what you have to do, but pay me so I can do my business."
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