BREAKING: Man suffers head injury after Storm Doris blows roof debris at Victoria Station
A MAN has been injured by debris falling from a roof outside Victoria Station's new entrance - as Britons battle against winds of up to 94mph during Storm Doris.
Storm Doris debris has injured a man in Victoria, central London
Emergency services rushed to the scene in Cardinal Place shopping centre, opposite the main station, where a new entrance to the Tube opened a month ago.
Paramedics treated a man for head injuries and took him to hospital at about 3pm, a spokeswoman for London Ambulance Service (LAS) said.
Pictures showed an ambulance, two fire engines and a police van, as well as dozens of firefighters, police and paramedics attending the scene.
Some witnesses said the debris had flown off the roof of the new London Underground entrance.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said the man was taken to hospital with "head injuries" after police were called to reports of "debris falling from the roof of a building".
An LAS spokeswoman, said: "We were called at 2.59pm to reports of incident on Victoria Street.
"We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car, an incident response officer and an advanced paramedic to the scene.
“Our hazardous area response team was also dispatched. We treated a man at the scene for a head injury and took him as a priority to hospital."
Debris from a roof hit the man on the head, police said
Victoria Street has been closed to traffic as Storm Doris causes havoc in central London and across the country.
A Transport for London spokesperson, said: “The Cardinal Place entrance to Victoria Tube station is currently closed following an incident at around 15:00 today involving a male pedestrian.
"The emergency services were called.
"We are conducting an urgent investigation into what happened.”
Earlier today a woman in her 20s died in Wolverhampton after she was hit by flying roof debris, "the size of a coffee table".
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