Leyton High Road crash: BMW driver fighting for life after veering off road and smashing into house

Crash: The car veered across the pavement and hit the front wall of the house
Jack Fortescue
Tom Marshall4 June 2016

A driver is fighting for life after veering off the road and crashing into a house in east London.

The BMW car mounted the pavement and smashed through the front garden wall of a house in Leyton High Road at about 5.30am.

The man, who is thought to be in his 30s, was rushed to an east London hospital where he remains in a critical condition.

Jack Fortescue, 39, a housing association worker who lives nearby, said: “They’ve gone straight through the front wall of someone’s house, almost into the house.

Emergency services at the scene
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“It’s shocking. It’s a residential property on a straight stretch of road, quite how it’s occurred is difficult to understand.

“The most worrying aspect is that they’ve come across the pavement. Fortunately it happened early in the morning and not on a school day and no one was hit.”

The accident happened at the junction with Hainault Road, which was sealed off by police for several hours on Saturday morning.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “Enquiries into the circumstances continue.

“Road closures remain in place around the scene."

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