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A woman trapped beneath the wheels of a black cab in central London was saved by a crowd of Londoners who lifted the car off her.

Footage obtained by the Evening Standard shows City workers racing to help the pedestrian yesterday afternoon. Witnesses said some people ran from their offices on King William Street near Bank station after an onlooker shouted ‘help, help, we need men.’

Laura Fares, one of the first on the scene, told the Standard: ‘I saw this woman under the cab and I couldn’t quite believe it.

‘At that point, nobody was doing anything.


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One person released the handbrake while others lifted (Picture: Tiaan Trahms/Evening Standard/Eyevine)

‘Something inside me kicked in and suddenly I just started shouting at people to help. I started screaming “help or she’s going to die”.



‘I started shouting at men passing by, screaming “you’re a man we need you”. All these bankers and city workers then just started dropping their briefcases and running over.’

Tiaan Trahms, a consultant for a technology company who took the video, said that one man ran into the cab to release the hand brake while around 30 others lifted the vehicle off the ground.

He called it ‘one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.’

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People ran from their offices to help (Picture: Tiaan Trahms/Evening Standard/Eyevine)

‘It was quite a moment,’ he added.

The London Ambulance Service said that a motorcycle responder and members of the air ambulance were the first on the scene.

‘We treated a woman reported to be in her 40s for leg and pelvic injuries,’ a spokeswoman said.

‘She was taken as a priority to hospital.’

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