Suffering for Fashion: Kate Moss Billboard Crashes Down on Pedestrians, Sends Them to Hospital

Four passersby were injured in a busy London shopping district after makeshift signage of the supermodel collapsed in front of a store undergoing renovations

By Alexis L. Loinaz Mar 08, 2012 1:44 PMTags
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British passersby were floored by Kate Moss' beauty. And not in a good way.

Four pedestrians were hospitalized yesterday when a billboard of the British supermodel collapsed on them in one of London's busiest shopping districts.

Per the BBC, three women and a man were hurt in the incident. One suffered a possible back injury, while the rest sustained minor injuries.

All four victims—who reportedly included a 23-year-old woman, a man in his early 60s and a woman in her mid-40s—were walking past a towering Mango ad of Moss along Oxford Street when the billboard came loose and fell on them.

The signage was part of a makeshift façade for a store currently under construction.

A spokesman for the London Fire Brigade said that "three fire engines, four fire rescue units and around 40 firefighters [were] at the scene. The police and London Ambulance Service [were] also at the scene."