![]() Photos taken at the scene from a roof overlooking the wreckage do not show any visible break in a metal fence alongside the platform. Ten minutes after there were helicopters, it was like the Third World War.' 'The car must have smashed the fence, because behind that is the pedestrian walkway and it's come right over that. ![]() I thought it was somebody breaking into one of the garages. I heard this huge bash at about half past three. Mr Wood, who lives in a block of flats next to the station, said the only way for the 4x4 to have ended up on the track was by becoming airborne and going over the flat roof of the waiting room at Park Royal underground station. A few minutes later all you could hear were sirens and a police helicopter overhead. 'I came out of my flat to see what had happened but assumed it was a collision in one of the roads nearby. Then it was silent for a few seconds and all you could hear was a car alarm going off. The 61 year old said: 'There was a huge bang, like a mini explosion. Local resident Andrew Wood told the MailOnline how he was woken by a 'mini explosion' as the Range Rover careered off the road and on to the underground tracks. The western section of the A40 – one of the main routes out of central London - remains closed to all traffic. 'The Tesla was not on the road and the Range Rover came at speed and crashed through a metal barrier and into the stationary vehicle.' 'Unless there was some catastrophic mechanical failure we will be looking if drink was somehow involved. Officers said the Piccadilly Line and the A40 will stay closed for a 'considerable period of time' as they placed a cordoned around the scene. The man who was in the Tesla has been hospitalised for less serious injuries.Ī resident also told the MailOnline that they recall hearing a 'mini explosion' in the early hours of this morning before police were called at 3.48am to the 'mayhem'. All three Range Rover passengers are in their 20s. The male driver of the 4x4, which ended up on the tracks of the Piccadilly Line, is in a critical condition, while another female passenger is being treated for non life-threatening injuries. One woman has died and three people have been injured after a Range Rover smashed into a parked Tesla in central London this morning.Ī man in his 50s was sitting alone charging his vehicle at the Tesla Centre close to Park Royal underground station at 3.48am when the Range Rover veered off the road, crashed into a metal barrier and slammed into the £50,000 car below.Ī woman in her 20s, believed to be a female passenger in the Range Rover, died at the scene off the A40 Western Avenue, West London.
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