Council shuts second pop-up urinal after toilet worker is crushed to death in ... trends now
A second pop-up urinal has been shut by the council after a toilet worker was crushed to death in London's West End on Friday afternoon.
The man had been 'trapped below street level underneath a hydraulic urinal', the London Fire Brigade confirmed.
Westminster City Council said it is temporarily shutting down the second of its UriLift toilets, on Villiers Street, as a 'precautionary measure'.
A spokesman for the council said: 'Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with the friends and family of the worker who tragically died at this site in the West End.
The pop-up urinal that crushed a man to death in London's West End this afternoon was spotted being held up by a crane
Westminster City Council said that it was temporarily shutting down the second of its UriLift toilets, on Villiers Street, as a 'precautionary measure'
'We have been on site supporting our contractor and the emergency services and will assist all investigations in any way we can.'
Emergency services tried to save the man, who has not been named, but he died at the scene at Cambridge Circus on the junction between Shaftesbury Avenue and Charing Cross Road - outside the Palace Theatre, where the Harry Potter play is being shown.
The victim was performing maintenance on the pop-up urinal which rises from the pavement for those out in London at night.
A man has been killed after being 'trapped' and 'crushed' by a 'telescopic' public urinal in Cambridge Circus in central London
Telescopic urinals are pop-up facilities that rise up from the pavement for those out in London at night
Four fire engines, 25 firefighters and multiple ambulances attended the scene. A police tent has been put up at the scene
Ambulance crews, an air ambulance and firefighters were dispatched at 1.05pm and police were called five minutes later. The man was freed earlier on Friday but was pronounced dead soon
