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A 49-year-old woman in London has been killed after the upper portion of a building crashed to the pavement in High Holborn.

Mother-of-three Julie Sillitoe from north London was driving her mini cab along High Holborn at 11.05pm on Friday (14/02/14) when the ornate façade of the upper floor of a building opposite Holborn Tube station crashed to the ground in high winds.

Mrs Sillitoe was pronounced dead at the scene, while a female passenger managed to escape from the wreckage of the car before emergency services arrived. A male passenger was taken to hospital with leg injuries. A pedestrian is also reported to have been injured in the incident, which occurred after high winds and heavy rainfall on Friday night.

The two people injured in the incident are not thought to have life threatening injuries.

The incident on Friday is the second incident involving an historic building in central London in two months.

In December, the roof of the Apollo Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue collapsed mid-performance after heavy rainfall. Debris from the ornately decorated ceiling plummeted to the stalls and covered the balcony seats, including a large ceiling rose and chandelier and heavy lighting gantries.

In that incident, four theatregoers were taken to hospital with serious injuries while around 80 were injured and had to be ferried to local A&E departments in London buses.

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