EMERGENCY services have cordoned off an area near Archway tube station after scaffolding collapsed onto a parked car.

Pictures show the blue car under a pile of metal poles and building material parked outside an empty shop on Junction Road.

Two police cars and a fire engine are at the scene. There are not thought to be any injuries.

Neighbours said the shop had been empty since the start of lockdown, and that a bakery had previously occupied the site next door to the Burger Street restaurant.

Cesar Rodrigues is the owner of the car damaged by the scaffolding. Mr Rodrigues, a bus driver whose first day of retirement is today, had only left the parked car with his wife moments before the scaffolding fell.

He said: “We’d only just got out of the car. Me and my wife decided to cross the road and heard a thump. I turned around and saw that [scaffolding] was on top of my car and my heart was thumping. We could have been killed.”

Witness Stephen Adams told the Tribune: “I was on the phone to my son and heard the woman scream. The occupants of the car had just got out of the car and I heard the crash”

Charlie Patel from Butler’s News said: “I was upstairs nodding off on the settee and my wife said did you hear that crash?”