No pedestrians were injured after a speeding pickup truck crashed into a downtown Calgary building on Thursday morning.
The truck, a white Ford F-150, reportedly came across a number of police officers on bikes in the area of 21 Street and 28 Avenue S.W. just after 11 a.m., before fleeing the scene.
A short while later, the truck was seen speeding toward downtown, before losing control and crashing into The Pint Public House, at the intersection of 17 Avenue and 14 Street S.W.
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The two people who were in the truck when it crashed ran away from the scene, police said.
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As of 1:30 p.m., those people had not been located, and investigators were working to come up with descriptions of them.
“Thankfully, no bystanders were injured as a result of the collision,” police said.
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