No injuries were reported after a truck collided with a sedan, and then crashed into the front foyer of a house on a busy stretch of Oxford Street in West London on Wednesday, fire officials said.
The two-vehicle chain-reaction crash happened around 4:30 p.m. along Oxford Street West, just west of Wharncliffe Road.
Union Gas and London Hydro officials have been called to shut off utilities to the building by the on-scene commander, Braatz said. A building division engineer is also expected to assess the building’s structural integrity.
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Both vehicles were traveling west at the time of the crash, a police spokesperson said.
“There was nobody inside the house, and no reports of any injuries, so they basically got lucky in that way,” Braatz said.
“The time of day, and when this action occurred, we were just lucky there were no pedestrians on the sidewalk or nobody home in the house at the time.”
The collision snarled westbound rush-hour traffic along Oxford Street. Delays stretched as far back as Colborne Street.
The cause of the collision is not yet clear, and London police are investigating.
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