A car slammed into a bank Wednesday morning, killing one person inside and injuring nine others. It happened at the Alberta Treasury Branch at 388 Country Hills Blvd. N.E.
When emergency crews arrived, they found a car lodged inside the building. The vehicle fell approximately six-metres from a road above the building.
That bank was open at the time. The car landed in a boardroom, trapping three of the nine people inside the room at the time. All were injured, including the driver. Three were taken to the Foothills Hospital in critical condition. One person was killed instantly.
The 68-year-old male driver of the car sustained serious chest injuries and was transported to the Peter Lougheed Hospital.
The Calgary Fire Department's search and rescue team was called in to search for those trapped.
Police are still investigating the incident.
There is video of the scene on the CFCN site, click the link underneath the photo that says, "Kari Eyles reports". This is a photo that I took at the scene:
The car flew over the fence in front of the Canadian Tire sign, you can see where the fence is bent. The car must have been going pretty fast, because the fence isn't much lower than the level of the sidewalk. You can see there are no tracks in the snow between the bend in the fence and the hole in the bank, so the car must have at least made it to the asphalt.
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