A 22-year-old man is fighting for his life after a BMW crashed into a fountain in Piccadilly Circus.
The black car overturned and was lying on its roof near the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain at 5.30am yesterday (June 29).
Officers and London Ambulance Service crews attended and found two men, who were in the vehicle, injured.
(Image: Lucy North/PA) They were taken to hospital for treatment with one of them in a life-threatening condition.
No pedestrians were injured and no other vehicles are thought to be involved, the Metropolitan Police said.
Road closures are in place around Piccadilly Circus.
The Met said it was called at about 5.30am, with London Ambulance Service paramedics and the London Fire Brigade.
A spokesperson for London Ambulance Service said: “We were called at 5.25am today (29 June) to reports of a road traffic collision on Piccadilly, W1J.
“We sent a number of resources, including ambulance crews, a paramedic in a fast response car, an incident response officer and members of our hazardous area response team (HART). We also dispatched a trauma team in a car from London’s Air Ambulance.
“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.”
