‘Headlights flying through the air’: No injuries in dramatic Winnipeg car crash

An SUV that crashed into a store Sunday nighttime was seen speeding down a backmost lane successful Winnipeg’s Munroe West country earlier spinning out, an eyewitness said.

Police study that nary 1 was wounded successful the crash.

The incidental took spot successful the backmost lane of Sydney Avenue astir 11:30 p.m. Eyewitness Shawn Bunskoek told 680 CJOB he’s been acrophobic astir speeding vehicles successful the country for immoderate clip and was extracurricular erstwhile helium saw the SUV rip down the lane earlier crashing straight into a garage.

“(I saw) headlights flying done the aerial and a conveyance swerving,” Bunskoek said. “All I heard was tires squealing and crashing.

“From what I tin archer of the roadworthy rash from the marks down the lane, the conveyance was going truthful fast, it had flipped implicit once, landed connected its roof, and landed backmost connected its tires.

“The backmost extremity of the SUV ended up successful the neighbour’s garage.”

Police accidental the driver, a 21-year-old Winnipeg antheral who wasn’t the registered proprietor of the SUV, wasn’t criminally charged, but was fixed 3 tickets, including 1 for making a mendacious connection astir drinking intoxicant earlier driving.

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Const. Claude Chancy said the conveyance was seized and taken to a Manitoba Public Insurance lot.

“The identified driver, arsenic good arsenic a fewer passengers, remained connected country and spoke with officers,” Chancy said.

“(Officers) provided a trial to find whether oregon not helium was impaired by alcohol, and it was determined that was not a origin of the collision to the store structures.”