Car disastrously crashes into cellar outside tube station

"Some fine parking outside Lancaster Gate this morning," read the tweets, as commuters took stock of what was in front of them. That was the scene in Central London, after a Mercedes coupe left the road and ended up plunging into the basement of a building during rush hour.

The motorist, who was travelling with a passenger, escaped unscathed from the vehicle, which was left under a block of luxury apartments. A receptionist at Fountain House, opposite, told the Evening Standard it was lucky nobody was killed.