Frightening video shows Amazon lorry destroy bollards on Ealing street corner and drive off

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A post and diversion sign were also taken out

An Amazon driver destroyed three bollards and a street sign after running his lorry over two residential street corners in Acton. The incident happened on the narrow junctions of Whelan Road and Osborne Road yesterday morning (October 10).

The roads are currently part of a diversion amid ongoing roadworks in the West London neighbourhood. A video of the shocking incident taken by a witness in a nearby flat was posted on X and has since been viewed over 700,000 times.

The blue articulated HGV first knocked down one bollard and the Whelan Road street sign, leaving them flattened on the pavement, but kept driving. It then pulled two more bollards out the pavement and mowed over a yellow diversion sign on the corner of Osborne Road.

Social media users were left in disbelief, one writing: "It seems as if the driver had no idea it was even happening"

Another added: "Imagine that was a mother and toddler in a pram waiting to cross the road," whilst a third said: "Over reliant on sat navs. The amount of times I see large vehicles causing obstructions down unsuitably narrow roads is becoming a regular occurrence.”

Ealing Council confirmed the incident was reported to its highways team yesterday and an inspector attended after midday. The two sites have since been made temporarily safe ahead of a permanent repair, with the council saying: "We will be contacting Amazon in due course to recover all costs incurred in repairing the damage.”

A statement from Amazon reads: "We’re investigating with our carrier partner and we’ve contacted the local authority to make this right.”