(Ryan James Wuchterl)

By Josh Hall (Twitter: @Vancan19)

charges pending

Truck smashes into garage in Riverside Meadows

Jun 30, 2019 | 9:17 AM

Charges are pending against a 17-year-old following an incident that concluded in Riverside Meadows Saturday night.

RCMP Media Relations Cst. Chantelle Kelly says members originally received a complaint of a red F150 truck driving dangerously in Red Deer’s downtown area.

“Members did locate it in the Parkland Mall parking lot, but it took off,” she says. “The vehicle wasn’t pursued based on risk factors and the amount of people around.”

Kelly says it was about 10:15 when police got the call that the same truck had struck a garage near 51 Avenue and 60 Street.

A red F150 rests flipped after striking a garage in Riverside Meadows. No one was hurt. (Ryan James Wuchterl)

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The youth driver was arrested and remains in custody pending a court appearance. His passenger was not charged.

There have been no injuries reported to police at this time.

Kim Turner, whose garage it was that was destroyed, tells rdnewsNOW that she and her fiancé had been in their other car next to the that garage three minutes earlier before leaving for the grocery store.

“We both could have been injured or killed. If either of us had forgotten anything inside the house or if we took three more minutes with our grocery list, we could have been pinned in the middle (of the crash),” she says.

“It also really scares me with the park being so close to the scene. Thankfully it was a bit later in the night and there were no pedestrians or kids on the sidewalk.”

Asked if she has any message for the powers that be, Turner says, “Anyone over the age of 15 knows how wrong and illegal that act was. I don’t care if they weren’t quite 18, they knew what they were doing and should pay some kind of consequence.”

Turner adds that she was told on scene by emergency officials that the vehicle had to have been going highway speeds. She noted as well that there is a transformer station directly behind their property which the truck came very close to hitting.

rdnewsNOW also spoke to a resident who lives nearby where the crash occurred and assisted with making a citizen’s arrest before RCMP arrived.

A truck belonging to residents Kim Turner and Landon Harder sits in the rubble of their garage, next to where they sat in their car just three minutes prior to the crash. (Kim Turner)

“I heard it (the crash), then ran out to the aftermath, and helped contain one guy while someone chased the other guy and brought him back,” says the resident, who prefers to remain anonymous.

“Police arrived and contained the area and pushed everyone out so police dogs could come in. The resident’s dog escaped when the truck took out the fence, but with social media and the community coming together, we got the dog delivered back to the house.”

RCMP also noted that they believe the truck was stolen.

The accused’s name won’t be released due to his age.