Non Member involved in car park collapse

The Elmer Avenue car park in Southend-on-Sea partially collapsed during demolition earlier this week.

According to local newspaper reports, two teenage students escaped serious injury when falling rubble from a multi-storey car park narrowly missed them. Sam Maddison and pal Matt Toyer, who go to South Essex College, were walking down the Farringdon Service Road, behind the multi-storey, when the incident happened.

The pair were on their morning break from class and on their way back from the town centre when debris, including planks, fell from the crumbling building and through the safety netting.