CCTV captures man narrowly escaping building collapse
A man narrowly avoided getting hit by a pile of falling bricks while he walked down a street in east London, UK.
The CCTV footage of the incident — which occurred on Stoke Newington High Street, Hackney — was posted to Twitter by local football team, Hackney Wick FC.
The video shows a man walking along a stretch of pavement shortly before a rather large pile of bricks and rubble fall from above.
Per the BBC, the falling bricks were the result of a building collapsing due to windy weather. The London Fire Brigade told the BBC no one was injured during the building collapse.
"While the boys were fundraising this happened across the road," read Hackney Wick FC's tweet. "A reminder that you can be taken at any time so be thankful for surviving another day."
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Narrow escape, to say the very least.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
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