'I was lucky to get out alive': Man describes the moment he crashed through Willenhall shop floor
A man who fell through a shop floor as it collapsed has said he was "lucky to get out alive", after escaping with minor injuries.
Shaun Davis was in a phone repair shop on the corner of Cross Street and Cheapside in Willenhall at around 4.40pm on Thursday.
He was leaving the store when the concrete floor below him collapsed, dropping him around seven feet into the cellar and leaving him trapped under debris.
The 32-year-old from Bloxwich also said he was "inches" away from being impaled on a metal spike in the incident.
"I went into the shop with my sister-in-law for a phone repair, and while they were doing it, I walked out to look at the notices they had in the window, and the concrete floor collapsed from under my feet," he said.
"I dropped around seven feet, maybe more.
"I was lying in the shop's cellar and could see the whole shop was supported by one scaffold pole, I thought the whole place was going to come down, that's why they evacuated people from the flats above.
"There was a concrete slab on my leg and if I had fallen two inches further backwards I would have been impaled on a metal spike down there, I was lucky to get out alive.
"My four-year-old boy was desperate to come with me when we left the house too, so it's so lucky we didn't take him with us."
Mr Davis was taken to Walsall Manor Hospital for precautionary checks and spent six hours being looked after by staff, but he escaped with minor injuries.
He added: "I have a few aches and pains, a busted elbow, whiplash and some bruising and tissue damage - so I'm very lucky it wasn't more.
"I was able to walk out up the cellar stairs with the paramedics after they checked me over.
"The shop owner can't apologise enough, I think they're all shocked like me."
Firefighters and paramedics were sent to the scene as police cordoned the road off.
People living in flats above the store were evacuated while a structural engineer checked it was safe to return.
