One person has been injured after a double-decker bus crashed into a building outside Hayes & Harlington railway station in west London, causing widespread disruption to local travel.

The incident involved the H90 service to Hounslow, which came to a halt facing sideways across Station Road in Hillingdon after its front made contact with the exterior wall of Trident House, an apartment block situated next to the station.

Police officers and firefighters were dispatched to the scene, where the bus was cordoned off as onlookers gathered nearby. Paramedics and emergency crews attended to the scene shortly after the collision took place.

If you are travelling through Hillingdon today, you will need to allow extra time or seek another way around. Transport for London has labelled the collision a "serious" incident and warned passengers and motorists to take alternative routes.

Station Road is closed in both directions between North Hyde Road and Clayton Road, with the carriageway obstructed directly outside the station. That closure has led to significant queues, with TfL reporting delays in both directions along North Hyde Road.

A spokesperson for Transport for London said: "Our thoughts are with the person who was injured when a bus collided with a building in Hayes and Harlington earlier today. Safety is our top priority and we and the bus operator, First Bus are assisting the police to establish what happened."

What we do not know yet is the precise cause of the collision, the severity of the injured person's condition, or whether any residents inside Trident House were affected at the time of the impact.

The collision in west London comes just 24 hours after another double-decker bus crashed into a house in the Norfolk village of Ormesby St Margaret. In that incident, emergency crews from Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Carrow, and Dereham attended West Road after a bus extensively damaged a period home undergoing a six-year renovation.

A neighbour in Norfolk, 64-year-old Kevin Griffin, said the impact "sounded like a bomb going off" before he ran out to help seven or eight passengers off the vehicle. First Bus confirmed that nobody was injured in that collision, and the homeowners were not inside at the time.

The capital saw a similar event in July, when a TfL bus mounted the pavement in Notting Hill, hitting the front wall of a property and damaging two parked cars. One person sustained a minor injury that did not need hospital treatment, with local resident Nicholas Katsantonis, 29, describing the scene as "crazy."

Investigators from the Metropolitan Police, TfL, and operator First Bus are continuing their work on Station Road to determine exactly how the H90 bus left the road this morning.

I'll be following this one — check back for updates as more information is confirmed by the emergency services.