Stolen pickup truck smashes into parked vehicle, house in Stony Plain
A person attempting to steal a pickup truck hit a parked vehicle and a house in Stony Plain on Friday morning.
"While trying to drive away the suspect hit a parked vehicle in a driveway that hit a house," RCMP told CTV News Edmonton.
The thief got out of the pickup and got into a blue Dodge driven by someone else and fled the area.
The owner of the pickup truck, who jumped into the box of the moving vehicle as it was being stolen, was sent to hospital.
Police are searching for the thief.
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