Chaos in Melbourne CBD as window pane falls off skyscraper and crashes onto street with pedestrians
A pedestrian is lucky to be alive after suffering minor injuries when a window fell from a high-rise office building and shattered on the street.
The shocking incident happened on the corner of Bourke and William streets in Melbourne’s CBD on Tuesday afternoon.
The window fell from the building at 140 William Street, which is in the heart of the city’s legal and financial district.
A video was posted to Reddit showing a huge hole in the side of a building where the window once was.
“A glass window fell out of my office building today!!!” read the caption.
A Victoria Police spokeswoman told Daily Mail Australia a pedestrian was treated at the scene for “minor injuries”.
“The circumstances are yet to be established, but the case is not being treated as suspicious,” she said.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said an ambulance crew was not required to treat the injured pedestrian.
The shocking incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon when the glass window (circled) at the corner of Bourke and William Streets in Melbourne’s CBD smashed into the ground, injuring a pedestrian.
The video on Reddit titled “Glass window fell out of my office building today!!!” zooms in on the gaping, jagged hole in which the glass window was located
140 William Street, formerly known as BHP House, is an iconic 152 meter high, 41-storey Grade II listed commercial building built between 1969 and 1972.
At the time of construction it was Australia’s tallest steel-framed building.
The high-rise was the first office building in Australia to implement a ‘total energy concept’, generating its own electricity using natural gas from BHP.
Social media users were shocked by the incident.
“I bet it would have sucked to be under there,” one person wrote.
“It’s kind of hard to explain why I was neatly bisected by a diamond at terminal velocity during my morning run.”
One linked the incident to WFH with a tongue-in-cheek joke.
‘Another reason not to go to the office. Even the buildings tell people to wfh,” they wrote.
“FAAAAAARRRRRRK bad day to be a pedestrian,” another added.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted management at 140 William Street for comment.