A double-decker bus has crashed into the scaffolding of a shop on a busy street in north-west London. 

Multiple people have reportedly been injured after a bus veered off the road and smashed into some scaffolding outside a corner shop on Harrow Road in Maida Vale earlier today. 

Pictures from the scene show the front of the front of the vehicle just inches away from the shop window, with the a smashed front windscreen. 

Other images also show a trail of destruction left by the bus, which appears to have smashed through a lamppost and several bollards before stopping. 

A double-decker bus has crashed into the scaffolding of a shop on a busy street in north-west London