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| Kensington crash: At least one dead after car being pursued by police ploughs into central London basement | Kensington crash: At least one dead after car being pursued by police ploughs into central London basement |
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| At least one man has died after a car plunged into a basement flat in Kensington in central London. | |
| Police officers had signalled for the car to stop prior to the crash, but the car "sped away out of sight", according to Scotland Yard. | |
| Witnesses described a brave effort from emergency services to save the men inside the car - of which just the bumper can be seen from the street. | |
| The collision, which left the car wedged between the side of the building and steps leading to a basement level flat, took place shortly after 3am on Saturday morning. | |
| Two men were able to free themselves from the trapped vehicle, while two other men were extracted from the car with the assistance of the fire brigade. | Two men were able to free themselves from the trapped vehicle, while two other men were extracted from the car with the assistance of the fire brigade. |
| Residents said they were left trapped inside the property while the men were being removed from the car by emergency services. They were only able to escape after a ladder was brought for them. | |
| All four men – believed to be in their 20s – were taken to hospital. One of them died later that morning. A second man remains in hospital in a critical condition. | |
| "I heard a boom, it moved me," said Khero, 40, who lives in the flat the car crashed into. "It was a really big bang, I thought the tree [next door] had come down," he told The Independent. | |
| "There was a diesel smell and smoke. I opened the window and saw police. | |
| "I tried to help but the police told me to get back." | |
| Khero said he heard one of the men in the vehicle crying for his brother, who is understood to have been the man who died. | |
| He continued: "The man's screaming was loud at first, but then it got quieter." | |
| The man was given CPR on the steps of a Tesco's store opposite the flat, Khero said. | |
| Another neighbour, retail manager Frank Shalloe, 57, said he heard a "massive, massive thud". | |
| "The police were at the scene almost immediately," he said. | |
| "It's shocking but its not the first crash there's been here, there was another one a couple of years ago." | |
| The flat is on the corner of a busy intersection between two 'A' roads. | |
| Police said the other men in the car have been arrested in connection with the incident. Neither suffered serious injuries. | |
| The car was seen by officers being driven at speed on Talgarth Road shortly before the collision, which happened on West Cromwell Road, the Met Police added. | |
| The Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been informed, which is standard procedure in such incidents. | The Directorate of Professional Standards and the Independent Police Complaints Commission have been informed, which is standard procedure in such incidents. |