Two men have been taken to hospital and drinkers were evacuated after a car crashed into the wall of a pub near Mitcham Junction.
Emergency services were called to reports that a car slammed into the front of the Goat Pub in Goat Road shortly after 3.20pm on Friday, April 28.
The car was involved in a collision with a van in the road before it smashed into the pub.
A London Fire brigade spokesman confirmed that following the collision 16 people evacuated the public house and that a hazard zone was put in place before emergency services left at 5.10pm.
Paramedics treated the car’s driver, aged in his 50s, for minor injuries before he was taken to a west London hospital.
The driver of the van, also aged in his 50s, was taken to the same hospital as a precaution.
No arrests have been made in connection with the collision.
It was the second time emergency services have been called to the road within a week.
Twenty firefighters were called to a flat above Signright Graphics Ltd at 1.43am on Sunday, April 23.
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A man, who lived above the store, was treated by paramedics for smoke inhalation.
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