A metropolis bus crashed into London’s Palace Theatre, house to the West Finish manufacturing of Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one, this afternoon, in keeping with a report posted on the UK’s Metro information web site.
No accidents have been reported, however police sealed off the crash web site on Shaftesbury Avenue, close to Leicester Sq., as a potential crime scene and continued to analyze into the afternoon.
The incident occurred round 1 p.m. London time.
A spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police instructed Metro that, upon arriving on the scene, “Officers discovered a bus had mounted the curb and collided with a construction. Nobody was injured on this incident. Against the law scene stays in place and enquiries into the circumstances proceed.”
Images of the crash web site present harm to the aspect of the famed theater with what seems to be {a partially} collapsed aspect marquee. See pictures beneath.
The 2-part West Finish play runs on a Wednesday-to-Sunday schedule; last-minute tickets for this Wednesday had been nonetheless displaying as out there on the manufacturing’s web site.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one is written by Jack Thorne from an authentic story by Thorne, JK Rowling and John Tiffany. The play has been operating in London since 2016 and at Broadway’s Lyric Theatre since 2018.
