{"id":611512,"date":"2026-04-18T02:46:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:46:16","slug":"northwest-calgary-family-seeks-answers-after-motorist-crashes-into-home-drives-away-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611512\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Calgary family seeks answers after motorist crashes into home, drives away &#8211; Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A northwest Calgary family is hoping someone recognizes a vehicle they say was recently involved in a hit-and-run collision with their Evanston home and two parked vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Neil and Sherri Sponagle say they were asleep when the crash occurred on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>They say they learned about it the next morning from a security notification and after watching the security video on Neil\u2019s phone, showing the moment the vehicle collided with their Evansdale Way home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see a prompt from my security system saying there was a vehicle that went by my house around 11:30, didn\u2019t think anything of it,\u201d said Neil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI looked at it, seen the video of a car coming down the street with a high rate of speed swerve into my truck, hit my garage door.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The video also shows the moment the vehicle reverses and drives away.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tA surveillance camera captures the moment a black SUV drives away after colliding with a truck outside a NW Calgary home.\t\t\t\t <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy: Sponagle Family\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s second vehicle that was parked inside the garage was also damaged in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767930311_275_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you&#8217;ll never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy car was in the garage,\u201d says Sherrie. \u201cIt took the brunt of most of the force. If it wasn\u2019t here, this car could have in our kitchen, the driver could have been dead in our garage with a running car, like there\u2019s so many what-ifs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Crime<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Calgary police have confirmed that officers did attend the scene and are investigating the hit-and-run crash in the 100 block of Evansdale Way NW. They believe the vehicle that was involved is a dark-coloured SUV.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was recorded on several surveillance cameras in the area however none of them captured the vehicle\u2019s licence plate.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Based on the video surveillance and a serial number Neil found on the back of broken car part that was left at the scene, he believes the vehicle is a 2011 BMW X5.<\/p>\n<p>The couple has since put the video up on their community\u2019s social media page in hopes someone recognizes the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone knows something,\u201d says Sherrie. \u201cWe would just love to let this owner own up to their mistake or whatever it was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call police or CrimeStoppers.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A northwest Calgary family is hoping someone recognizes a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,2469,48,2169],"class_list":["post-611512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-crash","tag-canada","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}