A multi-storey car park has collapsed leaving cars and vans dangling perilously over the edge 50 feet above the ground.
Part of the NCP Nottingham City car park gave way overnight with a police spokesman revealing a wall ‘fell off’ at about 4am.
Road closures are in place at the scene while structural engineers assess the damage.
Maureen Black, 74, told the Nottingham Post: ‘If someone had been standing there next to one of the cars it could have been fatal. It’s a long way to fall.’
Part of the NCP Nottingham City car park gave way overnight with a police spokesman revealing a wall ‘fell off’
Road closures are in place at the scene while structural engineers assess the damage
Roger Black, also 74, said: ‘I’ve never seen anything like it, the whole wall has completely come away, and part of the floor as well.
‘It’s a good thing it happened in the early hours otherwise it could have been a lot worse.’
Onlooker Dennis Etherson, 68, from London, who was also waiting for a coach in Mount Street, said: ‘You just can’t work out how it’s happened.
‘We’re all discussing it but none of the suggestions make much sense. It’s just strange how much of it has come away. I hope they have a full investigation into this.’
A spokesman for NCP said: ‘An incident has occurred during the night at our Nottingham City car park, where a part of the front facia of the building has fallen and is blocking the entrance/exit of the car park.
‘No one has been injured and no vehicle has been damaged. The fire service and police are working with NCP and the site remains closed until it is safe to re-open.
A spokesman for NCP said: ‘An incident has occurred during the night at our Nottingham City car park, where a part of the front facia of the building has fallen and is blocking the entrance/exit of the car park’
Maureen Black, 74, told the Nottingham Post: ‘If someone had been standing there next to one of the cars it could have been fatal. It’s a long way to fall’
There were no injuries or vehicles damaged as a result of the incident
The damage from the collapse of the car park is shown with a large chunk of concrete that fell from the wall
Onlooker Dennis Etherson, 68, from London, who was also waiting for a coach in Mount Street, said: ‘You just can’t work out how it’s happened’
‘We apologise profusely for any inconvenience this has caused to our customers parked with us, and to customers arriving to park with us today.
‘We have staff on site who are communicating and helping any customers who have cars inside the building.
‘We have structural engineers on site also and are working with the relevant parties to make sure that the car park will re-open only when it is safe to do so.’
There were no injuries or vehicles damaged as a result of the incident.