Yikes!

On my way home today, the bus I was on took about 3 times longer than normal due to a huge detour, with several roads shut off and police everywhere. It was impossible to see what was going on at the time, but once I got back I found out it was due to a building-site crane collapsing onto a block of residential flats, killing 2 people.

BBC News - 25/09/2006:

One of the men that died at the block in Battersea, south-west London, was the crane driver and another is thought to be a man washing his car.

The flats have been evacuated but police said no-one inside was injured.

The two-storey building is on the edge of a construction site. Local residents described the collapse as like a bomb going off.

Leave a Reply