A man has been arrested for the fleeing the scene after police said he drove into the side of a Tesco in Rotherhithe while under the influence on Thursday morning (May 5).
The crash took place at about 6’o clock in the morning at the corner of Plough Way and Seafarer Way.
By 10.30, the car had been taken away but the shop was still taped off and rubble was strewn across the pavement – including a wheel that appeared to have been torn off the car in the accident.
A store worker at the scene said that no one was in the shop when it happened, and luckily it was too early for children to have been walking past on their way to school on the busy residential street. The car appears to have been stopped by a pillar inside the shop, otherwise it could have caused much more damage.
A Met Police spokesperson said: “Police were called at 06:01hrs on Thursday, 5 May to reports of a car in collision with a lamp post and a building at Sirius House, SE16.
“Police and London Fire Brigade attended. The vehicle has been recovered from the scene.
“A male, no further details, was arrested for leaving the scene of a collision and driving while under the influence of drugs or alcohol and failing to provide a breath sample.
“He was taken to a south London police station where he remains at this time. No persons were injured.”
A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service said: “We were called 6.09am at today (5 May) to reports of a road traffic collision on Plough Way, Southwark.