A busy road in Clerkenwell was closed for several hours and a shop suffered damage after a lorry crashed into scaffolding on Friday morning.
St John Street was cordoned off between the junctions of Rosebery Avenue and Spencer Street around 7.50 after the vehicle dislodged scaffolding above designer clothes store Andrew Majtenyi.
Five police cars and an ambulance arrived ten minutes later although no-one was injured as a result of the incident.
Police at the scene said that the positioning of the scaffolding near the edge of the pavement and the adverse camber of the road had contributed to the collision.
Workers arrived at 9am to repair the scaffolding and work was completed to fix damage sustained to the front window of the shop, which remained open for business, in the afternoon. The road was open as usual from around 2pm.
Darius Cruchel, building foreman for AC Beck and Sons, a construction firm working opposite the incident, said: “ To be honest it happened so quick. I just take out some stuff out of my van to start work and all of a sudden there is ten people [on the street], not only police. There was many people on the road taking pictures”.
“To be honest with you I don’t know the law but in my opinion they should have who did the scaffolding – we’ve got a big logo on the front of the scaffolding plus we’ve got a safety sign so people know what company is doing the work. Every company should do it.”
