A PARKED police car, its blue light and hazard lights flashing, was hit by a lorry as officers attended a road crash.

The original crash was between a van and a tractor and trailer on the Wainscott by-pass, near Rochester, yesterday morning. Three-quarters of an hour later the lorry hit the police car. An ambulance spokesman said: "Neither of the officers were in the car at the time so they were unhurt.

"But we ended up being sent out for both accidents. On the first occasion we took the van driver to hospital with suspected whiplash injuries.

"We came back for the second accident because we had reports that the lorry driver was hurt but he luckily only had minor cuts and bruises. He declined to be taken to hospital.''