By Emily Mertz & Destiny Meilleur Global News
Posted July 5, 2023 12:52 pm
Updated July 5, 2023 5:49 pm
Two Edmonton homes were struck in separate hit-and-run crashes in north and southeast Edmonton early Wednesday.
North Edmonton hit and run
Around 12:10 a.m., police were called to a home in the area of 122 Avenue and 92 Street that had been hit and significantly damaged by a silver sedan.
The sedan drove through the property’s fence before colliding with the house.
Edmonton police said that there were no reported injuries.
Tamara Lepretre, who’s lived at the home for several years, had just returned home and gone inside when she heard the car coming.
“We heard squealing,” she said. “You could hear it coming closer and closer … but you don’t think it’s going to hit you … and it actually hit. It hit my stairs, my fence and it shook the house. It shook me.
“The guy just took off … and then it came back just to check it out. Who does that?”
Lepretre said she was in the room next to where the car crashed through.
“It missed me. I wouldn’t be here if it hit me,” she said.
Lepretre said the driver looped around a second time.
“I could just hear him and all I could hear was screeching brakes, you know how when you’re turning a corner and speeding? It was pretty intense.”