A young man is fighting for his life after a car crashed into the Piccadilly Circus roundabout.
Emergency services rushed to the scene in the early hours of Sunday, June 29, after reports that a car had ploughed into the famous central London junction.
Images from the scene show the vehicle overturned and resting on its roof, apparently having collided directly with the iconic fountain at the roundabout's centre.
All roads leading to Piccadilly Circus have been closed, and the nearby Tube station has been partially shut due to the incident.
Two men aged 22 who were in the vehicle were taken to hospital, one of them in a life-threatening condition. . A spokesperson for the London Ambulance service said: “Our first paramedic arrived on scene in less than four minutes. We treated two people. We took one patient to a major trauma centre and the other patient to a local hospital.”
A police investigation into the collision is ongoing, and a substantial police presence remains at the site as enquiries continue.
