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.
The daily email you need for  breaking news  from . "It was the SWAT  armored vehicle  that hit my car,"  he said. "They left it on the sidewalk  overnight." ยป
"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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