{"id":305637,"date":"2025-07-31T03:58:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305637\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T03:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:58:13","slug":"three-injured-by-falling-rubble-as-van-ploughs-through-multi-storey-in-leeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/305637\/","title":{"rendered":"Three injured by falling rubble as van ploughs through multi-storey in Leeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Yorkshire Police were called to the NCP car park on York Street, Leeds, this afternoon after a van crashed through a wall leaving rubble falling onto pedestrians below<\/p>\n<p>21:51, 30 Jul 2025Updated 22:40, 30 Jul 2025<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/0_Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"The vehicle was seen dangling from the building\" loading=\"eager\"  \/>The vehicle was seen dangling from the building(Image: LeedsLive\/Facebook)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three people have been injured by falling rubble after a van crashed through a multi-storey <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/car-parks\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">car park<\/a> this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Officers rushed to the NCP car park on Harper Street in Leeds city centre at 4.09pm today to reports of a van <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/car-crashes\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">crashing<\/a> into an interior wall on the first floor of the car park. In the crash, the wall was damaged &#8211; and the vehicle was seen hanging from the car park over New York Street, one floor up from the ground at Leeds Market Car Park, in the city centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">The people inside the car were taken to the hospital for checks as a precaution. It comes after <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/world-news\/engineers-sacked-after-building-16-35515071\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">engineers were sacked after building a \u00a31.6million right-angle &#8216;disaster&#8217; bridge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/man-dies-tesco-car-park-35612102\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man dies in Tesco car park after pensioner driver&#8217;s foot &#8216;slipped&#8217;<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753934293_580_0_Image.jpg\" alt=\"Police were called to the NCP car park this afternoon\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>Police were called to the NCP car park this afternoon(Image: GoogleMaps)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Three others were also taken to the hospital to be assessed after they were hit by rubble, <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leeds-live.co.uk\/news\/leeds-news\/live-leeds-car-park-updates-32170336\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Leeds LiveLink opens in a new tab.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\">Leeds Live<\/a> reported. A spokesperson for <a class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/west-yorkshire-police\" target=\"\" aria-label=\"\" tabindex=\"0\" rel=\"noopener\">West Yorkshire Police<\/a> said: &#8220;Police were called to the NCP car park on Harper Street, Leeds at 4.09pm today to a report a van had collided with an interior wall while driving on the first floor. The collision caused damage to the building wall itself and led to the vehicle protruding outwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;Occupants of the vehicle were taken to hospital for precautionary checks. Three members of the public were also taken to hospital for assessment after being struck by rubble. None of the injuries are thought to be life threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">&#8220;A police scene has been established and damage to the building is being assessed by colleagues from the fire service and structural engineers. The vehicle involved will be recovered.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \">Yorkshire Ambulance Service said: &#8220;Ambulance resources responded to an incident at The Markets car park in central Leeds on Wednesday afternoon and five patients were conveyed to Leeds General Infirmary.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Yorkshire Police were called to the NCP car park on York Street, Leeds, this afternoon after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[1500,748,112348,346,393,4884,1860,16,15,12146,20653],"class_list":{"0":"post-305637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-car-parks","11":"tag-cars","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-leeds","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-vehicles","18":"tag-west-yorkshire-police"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114945846218642480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}