THIS is the horrifying moment an abandoned building comes crashing down onto a road in a UK city centre.
An outer wall of the old multi-storey building in Bradford began to crumble early on Monday morning.
Footage captured by a stunned passer-by, standing just a few feet away from the collapse, shows the crumbling wall as it came down onto Dale Street in the city.
The collapse starts slowly at first, with bits of debris from the ruined structure already littering the road when the camera started rolling.
More of the outer wall can be seen collapsing in the footage as bricks and bits of timber come loose and fall onto the pavement.
With a crash, the rest of the wall then suddenly comes down with piles of ruined rubble falling onto the road and throwing up a plume of smoke.
The man recording then begins to back away from the collapsing wall as smoke pours down the street towards him.
Rubble, bricks and pieces of timber continue to pour from the building in a dramatic scene.
The building is understood to have been empty when it collapsed with no injuries reported as a result of the catastrophic incident.
Speaking with the Telegraph & Argus, the man who recorded the collapse said: “You could hear the bricks cracking, the pipes falling, and then the building came down in an almighty dust cloud.
“There was a massive pile of rubble afterwards. Before the building fell to the ground, he said: ‘I came across rubble in the road.
“You could hear it cracking, the odd brick falling, and then it all came tumbling down.”
Images captured of the collapsed building later in the day show an entire wall of the structure shattered and left strewn across the road.
Part of the structure’s roof was left caved in with a gaping hole now exposing the inside to the elements.
A pile of rubbish was taped off and left on the street as emergency crews worked to clear the road.
Inside, each of the floors of the multi-storey building appear to have collapsed onto one another.
Brickwork on the outer parts of the structure looks to have been left cracked with parts of the wall bulging out towards the road.
It remains unclear what caused the old abandoned building to collapse.
A spokesperson for the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said: “We were called at 6.50 am today to reports of an unsafe structure.
“We’ve got two crews at the scene who are assisting stakeholders, including a structural engineer.”
