{"id":13247,"date":"2012-04-25T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/uncategorized\/car-smash-snappy-snaps-back-in-headlines-13247"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:28:12","slug":"car-smash-snappy-snaps-back-in-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/latest\/photo-news\/car-smash-snappy-snaps-back-in-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Car smash Snappy Snaps back in headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"

In May 2011, a Jaguar XJ careered through the front of
\nSnappy Snaps in Mayfair, pinning terrified owner Scott Collier to the bonnet
\nand causing thousands of pounds of damage.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

\u2018Another inch and the car would have crushed his legs,’ said
\nSuzy Miller, a customer who arrived on the scene soon afterwards.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

\u2018Scott was inches away from having his successful career as
\na wedding and corporate photographer trashed, as well as losing his shop.’<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

Despite the shock of the collision Scott, who had been
\ntrapped against the shop’s front door, managed to capture images of the
\naftermath.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

The driver escaped unhurt but Scott is still recovering from
\ninjuries sustained in the smash, which was treated as a freak accident.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

The shop itself was up and running 24 hours later.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

Next month, the refurbished store will be re-launched as a
\nflagship outlet, boasting new photo editing kiosks and organising photography
\nworkshops.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

\u2018Thanks to the car smashing through my shop, and allowing me
\nto change the layout, I’m able to have space to offer a new way for customers
\nto engage with their own images,’ said Scott, 45, who has owned the Shepherd’s
\nMarket branch for 25 years.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

This is not the first time the Mayfair store has been in the
\nnews. <\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

In 2006, one of its staff captured the famous last picture of former Russian spy
\nAlexander Litvinenko<\/a> who had been poisoned by what was found to be the
\nradioactive substance polonium-210.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

Natasja Weitsz, who took the widely published photo, had to undergo medical tests afterwards.<\/p>\n


\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n <\/p>\n

Her
\nportrait showed Litvinenko in hospital, looking weak and without hair.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

In 2010, Singer
\nGeorge Michael<\/a> was jailed for eight weeks after crashing his car into a Snappy
\nSnaps shop in Hampstead, while under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n

Snappy Snaps has told Amateur Photographer<\/em> that it invited George Michael to the opening of its revamped Mayfair branch.<\/p>\n

But the star declined, so bosses have hired a lookalike instead. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A London branch of Snappy Snaps is set to become the chain\u2019s flagship store a year after a car ploughed through its window, nearly wiping out its owner. 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