7 injured after car crashes into mall fitness centre in southern Ontario: paramedics

Seven people in London, Ont., have been sent to hospital after a vehicle crashed through a brick wall and into a shopping mall fitness centre.

Paramedics say five people were in serious condition and two had minor injuries.

Police say they were called to the single-vehicle crash around 7:40 a.m. at the mall in the city’s northwest, near Gainsborough Road and Wonderland Road.

Sgt. Sandasha Bough says a vehicle went through the shopping centre’s brick wall and into a fitness centre.

She says it was open at the time and people inside were injured.

Bough says the driver remained at the scene.